This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kbuild: Make ld-version.sh more robust against version string changes
to the 5.15-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:
kbuild-make-ld-version.sh-more-robust-against-versio.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a519c638ed8c3bc561ac08d9cd6d6afa60d7652f
Author: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jul 7 22:06:47 2024 -0700
kbuild: Make ld-version.sh more robust against version string changes
[ Upstream commit 9852f47ac7c993990317570ff125e30ad901e213 ]
After [1] in upstream LLVM, ld.lld's version output became slightly
different when the cmake configuration option LLVM_APPEND_VC_REV is
disabled.
Before:
Debian LLD 19.0.0 (compatible with GNU linkers)
After:
Debian LLD 19.0.0, compatible with GNU linkers
This results in ld-version.sh failing with
scripts/ld-version.sh: 18: arithmetic expression: expecting EOF: "10000 * 19 + 100 * 0 + 0,"
because the trailing comma is included in the patch level part of the
expression. While [1] has been partially reverted in [2] to avoid this
breakage (as it impacts the configuration stage and it is present in all
LTS branches), it would be good to make ld-version.sh more robust
against such miniscule changes like this one.
Use POSIX shell parameter expansion [3] to remove the largest suffix
after just numbers and periods, replacing of the current removal of
everything after a hyphen. ld-version.sh continues to work for a number
of distributions (Arch Linux, Debian, and Fedora) and the kernel.org
toolchains and no longer errors on a version of ld.lld with [1].
Fixes: 02aff8592204 ("kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/0f9fbbb63cfcd2069441aa2ebef622c9716f8dbb [1]
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/649cdfc4b6781a350dfc87d9b2a4b5a4c3395909 [2]
Link: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html [3]
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
index a78b804b680cf..b9513d224476f 100755
--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
@@ -57,9 +57,11 @@ else
fi
fi
-# Some distributions append a package release number, as in 2.34-4.fc32
-# Trim the hyphen and any characters that follow.
-version=${version%-*}
+# There may be something after the version, such as a distribution's package
+# release number (like Fedora's "2.34-4.fc32") or punctuation (like LLD briefly
+# added before the "compatible with GNU linkers" string), so remove everything
+# after just numbers and periods.
+version=${version%%[!0-9.]*}
cversion=$(get_canonical_version $version)
min_cversion=$(get_canonical_version $min_version)
