From: Antonio Alvarez Feijoo <antonio.feijoo@xxxxxxxx> commit cf8c59a3756b2735c409a9b3ac1e4ec556546a7a upstream. A single & will create a background process and return true, so the grep command will run even if the file checked in the first condition does not exist. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230112114215.17103-1-antonio.feijoo@xxxxxxxx/ Fixes: 1eaad3ac3f39 ("tools/bootconfig: Use per-group/all enable option in ftrace2bconf script") Signed-off-by: Antonio Alvarez Feijoo <antonio.feijoo@xxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/bootconfig/scripts/ftrace2bconf.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/bootconfig/scripts/ftrace2bconf.sh +++ b/tools/bootconfig/scripts/ftrace2bconf.sh @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ referred_vars() { } event_is_enabled() { # enable-file - test -f $1 & grep -q "1" $1 + test -f $1 && grep -q "1" $1 } per_event_options() { # event-dir