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* [PATCH] x86/build: add 'set -e' to mkcapflags.sh to delete broken capflags.c
@ 2019-06-25  7:26 Masahiro Yamada
  2019-06-25  7:55 ` [tip:x86/build] x86/build: Add " tip-bot for Masahiro Yamada
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From: Masahiro Yamada @ 2019-06-25  7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, x86
  Cc: Masahiro Yamada, H. Peter Anvin, Borislav Petkov, linux-kernel

Without 'set -e', shell scripts continue running even after any
error occurs. The missed 'set -e' is a typical bug in shell scripting.

For example, when a disk space shortage occurs while this script is
running, it actually ends up with generating a truncated capflags.c.

Yet, mkcapflags.sh continues running and exits with 0. So, the build
system assumes it has succeeded.

It will not be re-generated in the next invocation of Make since its
timestamp is newer than that of any of the source files.

Add 'set -e' so that any error in this script is caught and propagated
to the build system.

Since 9c2af1c7377a ("kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target"),
Make automatically deletes the target on any failure. So, the broken
capflags.c will be deleted automatically.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh
index d0dfb892c72f..aed45b8895d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 # Generate the x86_cap/bug_flags[] arrays from include/asm/cpufeatures.h
 #
 
+set -e
+
 IN=$1
 OUT=$2
 
-- 
2.17.1


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