Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Don't source kernel config

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Feb 20 2018 - 11:01:31 EST


2018-02-21 0:25 GMT+09:00 Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>:
> Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2018, 16:18:11 CET schrieb Masahiro Yamada:
>> 2018-02-19 18:22 GMT+09:00 Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>:
>> > Don't source the kernel config file in shell scripts.
>> > The config file is not a shell script and often imported from untrusted
>> > sources.
>> > What could possible go wrong? ;-)
>>
>> Please enumerate your real problems.
>
> Build a kernel where the .config contains something like:
> CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y
> CONFIG_CMDLINE="`echo hello > world`"


Same for Makefile
if a string symbol is referenced from Makefile, like

CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE="$(shell echo hello > world)aarch64-linux-gnu-"



> I'll send a v3 because I forgot to convert one function in the shell script to
> the new bash array. kbuild bot FTW. :-)

You do not need to do so.

This patch is so ugly.

Also, changed shell scripts have '#!/bin/sh' shebang,
but you are adding bash as a requirement.




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada