[PATCH] fixdep: fix U-Boot own code to handle only valid symbol characters

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy at kernel.org
Tue Feb 18 12:05:39 CET 2020


Currently, fixdep skips parsing include/linux/kconfig.h, but if it
parsed it, it would translate the following code in kconfig.h

  config_enabled(CONFIG_VAL(option##_MODULE)

into:

  $(wildcard include/config/option##/module.h)

When Kbuild includes .*.cmd, it would emit the following error:

  *** unterminated call to function 'wildcard': missing ')'.  Stop.

This issue prevents us from importing the upstream Linux commit
638e69cf2230 ("fixdep: do not ignore kconfig.h").

Fix this by handling only alphanumerical characters and underscores.
This makes sense because they match to the valid character sets in
Kconfig symbols.

As a side-note, you can reproduce this issue only on GNU Make <= 4.2.1

For GNU Make <= 4.2.1, the '#' always means the start of a comment.
Hence, GNU Make thinks the closing ')' is missing.

The following commit in GNU Make changed how it handles '#' in
function invocations. So, this does not happen for GNU Make 4.3

| commit c6966b323811c37acedff05b576b907b06aea5f4
| Author: Paul Smith <psmith at gnu.org>
| Date:   Thu Dec 22 18:47:26 2016 -0500
|
|    [SV 20513] Un-escaped # are not comments in function invocations

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
---

This patch is applicable to the current upstream code.


 scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
index da7fb2cd4dde..6a668f114096 100644
--- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
+++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static void parse_config_file(const char *map, size_t len)
 		    (q - p == 3 && !memcmp(p, "VAL(", 4))) {
 			p = q + 1;
 			for (q = p; q < map + len; q++)
-				if (*q == ')')
+				if (!(isalnum(*q) || *q == '_'))
 					goto found2;
 			continue;
 
-- 
2.17.1



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