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 4.4-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-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 346943efb99f66679c142fd96d44a6bfa19eedd3
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"
}
