This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kconfig: let 'shell' return enough output for deep path names to the 5.4-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: kconfig-let-shell-return-enough-output-for-deep-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit fb87457b03b9efe18b05aa0c7c9626bcc5b46a4f Author: Brenda Streiff <brenda.streiff@xxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 28 16:01:28 2022 -0600 kconfig: let 'shell' return enough output for deep path names [ Upstream commit 8a4c5b2a6d8ea079fa36034e8167de87ab6f8880 ] The 'shell' built-in only returns the first 256 bytes of the command's output. In some cases, 'shell' is used to return a path; by bumping up the buffer size to 4096 this lets us capture up to PATH_MAX. The specific case where I ran into this was due to commit 1e860048c53e ("gcc-plugins: simplify GCC plugin-dev capability test"). After this change, we now use `$(shell,$(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)` to return a path; if the gcc path is particularly long, then the path ends up truncated at the 256 byte mark, which makes the HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS depends test always fail. Signed-off-by: Brenda Streiff <brenda.streiff@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c index 0590f86df6e40..748da578b418c 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static char *do_lineno(int argc, char *argv[]) static char *do_shell(int argc, char *argv[]) { FILE *p; - char buf[256]; + char buf[4096]; char *cmd; size_t nread; int i;