This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled docs: Makefile: Use CONFIG_SHELL not SHELL to the 5.12-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: docs-makefile-use-config_shell-not-shell.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 222a28edce38b62074a950fb243df621c602b4d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:58:08 -0700 Subject: docs: Makefile: Use CONFIG_SHELL not SHELL From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 222a28edce38b62074a950fb243df621c602b4d3 upstream. Fix think-o about which variable to find the Kbuild-configured shell. This has accidentally worked due to most shells setting $SHELL by default. Fixes: 51e46c7a4007 ("docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617225808.3907377-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ quiet_cmd_sphinx = SPHINX $@ --> file:/ PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \ BUILDDIR=$(abspath $(BUILDDIR)) SPHINX_CONF=$(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)/$5/$(SPHINX_CONF)) \ $(PYTHON3) $(srctree)/scripts/jobserver-exec \ - $(SHELL) $(srctree)/Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh \ + $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh \ $(SPHINXBUILD) \ -b $2 \ -c $(abspath $(srctree)/$(src)) \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.12/wireless-wext-spy-fix-out-of-bounds-warning.patch queue-5.12/drm-i915-display-do-not-zero-past-infoframes.vsc.patch queue-5.12/drm-amd-display-avoid-hdcp-over-read-and-corruption.patch queue-5.12/docs-makefile-use-config_shell-not-shell.patch