The following commit has been merged into the x86/build branch of tip: Commit-ID: 0be11088b848774ae1f693169fdb9575e0ff06ba Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/0be11088b848774ae1f693169fdb9575e0ff06ba Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 05 May 2020 14:26:51 -07:00 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Sun, 17 May 2020 16:01:33 +03:00 x86/build: Use $(CONFIG_SHELL) When scripts/x86-check-compiler.sh doesn't have the executable bit set: q:/usr/src/25> make clean make: execvp: ./scripts/x86-check-compiler.sh: Permission denied Fix this by using $(CONFIG_SHELL). This will happen if the user downloads and applies patch-5.7.tar.gz, since patch(1) doesn't preserve the x bit. Fixes: 73da86741e7f7 ("x86/build: Check whether the compiler is sane") Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505211932.GE6880@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index 38d3eec..9e22791 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Unified Makefile for i386 and x86_64 # Check the compiler -sane_compiler := $(shell $(srctree)/scripts/x86-check-compiler.sh $(CC)) +sane_compiler := $($(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/x86-check-compiler.sh $(CC)) $(if $(sane_compiler),$(error $(CC) check failed. Aborting),) # select defconfig based on actual architecture