This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scripts/config: allow colons in option strings for sed to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scripts-config-allow-colons-in-option-strings-for-se.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 69a41f8afd39c916566bab315f082198f2f61dab Author: Jeremie Francois (on alpha) <jeremie.francois@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Apr 10 18:57:40 2020 +0200 scripts/config: allow colons in option strings for sed [ Upstream commit e461bc9f9ab105637b86065d24b0b83f182d477c ] Sed broke on some strings as it used colon as a separator. I made it more robust by using \001, which is legit POSIX AFAIK. E.g. ./config --set-str CONFIG_USBNET_DEVADDR "de:ad:be:ef:00:01" failed with: sed: -e expression #1, char 55: unknown option to `s' Signed-off-by: Jeremie Francois (on alpha) <jeremie.francois@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/config b/scripts/config index 026aeb4f32ee3..73de17d396987 100755 --- a/scripts/config +++ b/scripts/config @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ myname=${0##*/} # If no prefix forced, use the default CONFIG_ CONFIG_="${CONFIG_-CONFIG_}" +# We use an uncommon delimiter for sed substitutions +SED_DELIM=$(echo -en "\001") + usage() { cat >&2 <<EOL Manipulate options in a .config file from the command line. @@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ txt_subst() { local infile="$3" local tmpfile="$infile.swp" - sed -e "s:$before:$after:" "$infile" >"$tmpfile" + sed -e "s$SED_DELIM$before$SED_DELIM$after$SED_DELIM" "$infile" >"$tmpfile" # replace original file with the edited one mv "$tmpfile" "$infile" }