[PATCH] kbuild: fix spurious error from find when generating asm-headers
From: H. Nikolaus Schaller
Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 16:13:37 EST
The *.h pattern should be quoted or we may see errors like
find: paths must precede expression: elf.h
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]
if the working directory contains some *.h files.
This was found in a cross-compilation environment.
Fixes: 2d69b891e6461 ("kbuild: Support generated asm-headers in subdirectories")
Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/Makefile.asm-headers | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.asm-headers b/scripts/Makefile.asm-headers
index b38931314ad7c..9db8ab0145a44 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.asm-headers
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.asm-headers
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ syscall-y := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(syscall-y))
generated-y := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(generated-y))
# Remove stale wrappers when the corresponding files are removed from generic-y
-old-headers := $(shell test -d $(obj) && find $(obj) -name *.h)
+old-headers := $(shell test -d $(obj) && find $(obj) -name '*.h')
unwanted := $(filter-out $(generic-y) $(generated-y) $(syscall-y),$(old-headers))
filechk_wrap = echo "\#include <asm-generic/$*.h>"
--
2.55.0