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From: iamzayn19 <iamzayn19@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: iamzayn19 <iamzayn19@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scripts: bloat-o-meter: avoid shell for nm invocation
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:34:41 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260927053441.86594-1-iamzayn19@gmail.com> (raw)

bloat-o-meter builds the nm command with string formatting and then
executes it through the shell. Object file paths containing spaces are
split before nm sees them, so the comparison silently reports empty
results for those files.

Invoke nm with subprocess argv instead. This preserves paths as single
arguments and avoids shell interpretation of filenames and tool prefixes.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: iamzayn19 <iamzayn19@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/bloat-o-meter | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/bloat-o-meter b/scripts/bloat-o-meter
index 5868a8b..72edbb7 100755
--- a/scripts/bloat-o-meter
+++ b/scripts/bloat-o-meter
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
 # of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
 
-import sys, os, re, argparse
+import argparse, re, subprocess
 from signal import signal, SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL
 
 signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL)
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ def getsizes(file, format):
     if args.prefix:
         nm = "{}nm".format(args.prefix)
 
-    with os.popen("{} --size-sort {}".format(nm, file)) as f:
-        for line in f:
+    with subprocess.Popen([nm, "--size-sort", file], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                          text=True) as f:
+        if f.stdout is None:
+            return sym
+        for line in f.stdout:
             if line.startswith("\n") or ":" in line:
                 continue
             size, type, name = line.split()
@@ -49,6 +52,7 @@ def getsizes(file, format):
                 # statics and some other optimizations adds random .NUMBER
                 name = re_NUMBER.sub('', name)
                 sym[name] = sym.get(name, 0) + int(size, 16)
+        f.wait()
     return sym
 
 def calc(oldfile, newfile, format):
-- 
2.44.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-27  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-27  5:34 iamzayn19 [this message]
2026-09-27  7:13 ` David Laight

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