Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: check uniqueness of basename of modules

[Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>]

Hi Kees,

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:31 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 03:07:54AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 4:40 PM Masahiro Yamada
> > <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> >
> > >         $(Q)$(AWK) '!x[$$0]++' $^ > $(objtree)/modules.builtin
> > > diff --git a/scripts/modules-check.sh b/scripts/modules-check.sh
> > > new file mode 100755
> > > index 000000000000..944e68bd22b0
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/scripts/modules-check.sh
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> > > +#!/bin/sh
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > +
> > > +# Warn if two or more modules have the same basename
> > > +check_same_name_modules()
> > > +{
> > > +       same_name_modules=$(cat modules.order modules.builtin | \
> > > +                               xargs basename -a | sort | uniq -d)
> >
> >
> > I noticed a bug here.
> >
> >
> > allnoconfig + CONFIG_MODULES=y
> > will create empty modules.order and modules.builtin.
> >
> > Then, 'basename -a' will emit the error messages
> > since it receives zero arguments.
>
> You can skip running it by adding "-r" to xargs:
>
>        -r, --no-run-if-empty
>               If the standard input does not contain any nonblanks, do not run
>               the command.  Normally, the command is run once even if there is
>               no input.  This option is a GNU extension.

Good idea!

I will use this in v2.

Thanks.


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada