The patch titled Subject: arch/x86/Makefile: use $(CONFIG_SHELL) has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is arch-x86-makefile-use-config_shell.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/arch-x86-makefile-use-config_shell.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/arch-x86-makefile-use-config_shell.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: arch/x86/Makefile: use $(CONFIG_SHELL) When scripts/x86-check-compiler.sh doesn't have the x 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. Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/Makefile~arch-x86-makefile-use-config_shell +++ a/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 _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memcg-fix-error-return-value-of-mem_cgroup_css_alloc-fix.patch squashfs-migrate-from-ll_rw_block-usage-to-bio-fix.patch drivers-tty-serial-sh-scic-suppress-uninitialized-var-warning.patch mm.patch mm-slub-fix-corrupted-freechain-in-deactivate_slab-fix.patch mm-slub-add-panic_on_error-to-the-debug-facilities-fix.patch mm-gupc-updating-the-documentation-fix.patch mm-swapfilec-classify-swap_map_xxx-to-make-it-more-readable-fix.patch mm-remove-__vmalloc_node_flags_caller-fix.patch mm-switch-the-test_vmalloc-module-to-use-__vmalloc_node-fix.patch mm-switch-the-test_vmalloc-module-to-use-__vmalloc_node-fix-fix.patch mm-remove-vmalloc_user_node_flags-fix.patch mm-add-debug_wx-support-fixpatch-added-to-mm-tree.patch riscv-support-debug_wx-fix.patch mm-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member-fix.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-a-typo-in-comment-manitained-maintained-v2-checkpatch-fixes.patch linux-next-rejects.patch arch-x86-makefile-use-config_shell.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch