From: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] nsdeps: make generated patches independent of locale
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:27:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190927132726.GB187147@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190927093603.9140-8-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:36:03PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>scripts/nsdeps automatically generates a patch to add MODULE_IMPORT_NS
>tags, and what is nicer, it sorts the lines alphabetically with the
>"sort" command. However, the output from the "sort" command depends
>on locale.
>
>Especially when namespaces contain underscores, the result is
>different depending on the locale.
>
>For example, I got this:
>
>$ { echo usbcommon; echo usb_common; } | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sort
>usbcommon
>usb_common
>$ { echo usbcommon; echo usb_common; } | LANG=C sort
>usb_common
>usbcommon
>
>So, this means people might potentially send different patches.
>
>This kind of issue was reported in the past, for example,
>commit f55f2328bb28 ("kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents
>independent of locale").
>
>Adding "LANG=C" is a conventional way of fixing when a deterministic
>result is desirable.
>
>Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
>---
>
> scripts/nsdeps | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/scripts/nsdeps b/scripts/nsdeps
>index 964b7fb8c546..3754dac13b31 100644
>--- a/scripts/nsdeps
>+++ b/scripts/nsdeps
>@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ generate_deps() {
> for source_file in $mod_source_files; do
> sed '/MODULE_IMPORT_NS/Q' $source_file > ${source_file}.tmp
> offset=$(wc -l ${source_file}.tmp | awk '{print $1;}')
>- cat $source_file | grep MODULE_IMPORT_NS | sort -u >> ${source_file}.tmp
>+ cat $source_file | grep MODULE_IMPORT_NS | LANG=C sort -u >> ${source_file}.tmp
I would prefer to have this set throughout the whole runtime of the
script. Otherwise we likely see a followup patch. So, either as an
export at the beginning of this file or as part of the command that
calls this script.
With this
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Cheers,
Matthias
> tail -n +$((offset +1)) ${source_file} | grep -v MODULE_IMPORT_NS >> ${source_file}.tmp
> if ! diff -q ${source_file} ${source_file}.tmp; then
> mv ${source_file}.tmp ${source_file}
>--
>2.17.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-27 9:35 [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 9:35 ` [PATCH 1/7] modpost: fix broken sym->namespace for external module builds Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 9:56 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 11:46 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] module: swap the order of symbol.namespace Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 12:07 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] module: rename __kstrtab_ns_* to __kstrtabns_* to avoid symbol conflict Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 12:14 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] module: avoid code duplication in include/linux/export.h Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 9:58 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 11:07 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-09-27 12:36 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-10-29 19:19 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-29 21:11 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-31 10:13 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-31 11:03 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-31 11:26 ` Jessica Yu
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] kbuild: fix build error of 'make nsdeps' in clean tree Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 12:44 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] nsdeps: fix hashbang of scripts/nsdeps Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 13:10 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] nsdeps: make generated patches independent of locale Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 13:27 ` Matthias Maennich [this message]
2019-09-27 15:42 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 18:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-29 1:18 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-29 1:30 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-01 11:46 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-29 10:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-27 13:41 ` [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 15:43 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-02 18:57 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-02 20:43 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-10-03 1:26 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-03 8:03 ` Masahiro Yamada
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