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

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Tue Feb 20 2018 - 10:24:19 EST


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`"

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

Thanks,
//richard