[PATCH] initramfs: fix 'bad variable name' error in gen_initramfs_list.sh

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon Dec 30 2019 - 08:20:48 EST


Prior to commit 858805b336be ("kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with
bash-extension"), this shell script was almost always run by bash since
bash is usually installed on the system by default.

Now, this script is run by sh, which might be a symlink to dash. On such
distros, the following code emits an error:

local dev=`LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"`

You can reproduce the build error, for example by setting
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/dev".

GEN usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz
./usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh: 131: local: 1: bad variable name
make[1]: *** [usr/Makefile:61: usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz] Error 2

This is because `LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"` contains spaces.
Surrounding it with double-quotes fixes the error.

Fixes: 858805b336be ("kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension")
Reported-by: Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh
index 0aad760fcd8c..2bbac73e6477 100755
--- a/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+++ b/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ parse() {
str="${ftype} ${name} ${location} ${str}"
;;
"nod")
- local dev=`LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"`
+ local dev="`LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"`"
local maj=`field 5 ${dev}`
local min=`field 6 ${dev}`
maj=${maj%,}
--
2.17.1