[U-Boot] [PATCH] scripts/check-config.sh: fix "command not found" error handling

Luca Ceresoli luca at lucaceresoli.net
Thu Mar 15 10:08:56 UTC 2018


scripts/check-config.sh exits successfully and silently without doing
any checks when the 'comm' command is not found.

The problem triggers from the command around line 39:

  comm -23 ${suspects} ${ok} >${new_adhoc}

This statement fails when 'comm' is not in $PATH, creating an empty
${new_adhoc} file. But the script continues and the following line,
which is supposed to detect an error:

  if [ -s ${new_adhoc} ]; then

will always be false since the file is empty, and the script will exit
successfully as if everything were OK.

The case where 'comm' in not in $PATH is not theoretical. It used to
happen on yocto until a recent fix [0], and still happens on the
current stable branch (rocko).

Fix by setting the errexit flag to exit with error when a statement
fails, so that at least the problem is noticed.

For additional safety also set the nounset flag to detect expansion
errors.

[0] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=fe0b4cb5b48580d4a3f3c0eb82bfa6f1b13801e4

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
---
 scripts/check-config.sh | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/check-config.sh b/scripts/check-config.sh
index 267758498b3d..4848ca6e25a5 100755
--- a/scripts/check-config.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-config.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 # For example:
 #   scripts/check-config.sh b/chromebook_link/u-boot.cfg kconfig_whitelist.txt .
 
+set -e
+set -u
+
 path="$1"
 whitelist="$2"
 srctree="$3"
-- 
2.7.4



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