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<title>linux.git/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh, branch v6.1.168</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T16:17:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T13:50:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 973b710b8821c3401ad7a25360c89e94b26884ac ]

Tell tar to ignore silly-rename files (".__afs*" and ".nfs*") when building
the header archive.  These occur when a file that is open is unlinked
locally, but hasn't yet been closed.  Such files are visible to the user
via the getdents() syscall and so programs may want to do things with them.

During the kernel build, such files may be made during the processing of
header files and the cleanup may get deferred by fput() which may result in
tar seeing these files when it reads the directory, but they may have
disappeared by the time it tries to open them, causing tar to fail with an
error.  Further, we don't want to include them in the tarball if they still
exist.

With CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL=y, something like the following may be seen:

   find: './kernel/.tmp_cpio_dir/include/dt-bindings/reset/.__afs2080': No such file or directory
   tar: ./include/linux/greybus/.__afs3C95: File removed before we read it

The find warning doesn't seem to cause a problem.

Fix this by telling tar when called from in gen_kheaders.sh to exclude such
files.  This only affects afs and nfs; cifs uses the Windows Hidden
attribute to prevent the file from being seen.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213135013.2964079-2-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 973b710b8821c3401ad7a25360c89e94b26884ac ]

Tell tar to ignore silly-rename files (".__afs*" and ".nfs*") when building
the header archive.  These occur when a file that is open is unlinked
locally, but hasn't yet been closed.  Such files are visible to the user
via the getdents() syscall and so programs may want to do things with them.

During the kernel build, such files may be made during the processing of
header files and the cleanup may get deferred by fput() which may result in
tar seeing these files when it reads the directory, but they may have
disappeared by the time it tries to open them, causing tar to fail with an
error.  Further, we don't want to include them in the tarball if they still
exist.

With CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL=y, something like the following may be seen:

   find: './kernel/.tmp_cpio_dir/include/dt-bindings/reset/.__afs2080': No such file or directory
   tar: ./include/linux/greybus/.__afs3C95: File removed before we read it

The find warning doesn't seem to cause a problem.

Fix this by telling tar when called from in gen_kheaders.sh to exclude such
files.  This only affects afs and nfs; cifs uses the Windows Hidden
attribute to prevent the file from being seen.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213135013.2964079-2-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kheaders: explicitly define file modes for archived headers</title>
<updated>2024-06-27T11:46:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Maennich</name>
<email>maennich@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-28T11:32:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3bd27a847a3a4827a948387cc8f0dbc9fa5931d5 ]

Build environments might be running with different umask settings
resulting in indeterministic file modes for the files contained in
kheaders.tar.xz. The file itself is served with 444, i.e. world
readable. Archive the files explicitly with 744,a+X to improve
reproducibility across build environments.

--mode=0444 is not suitable as directories need to be executable. Also,
444 makes it hard to delete all the readonly files after extraction.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3bd27a847a3a4827a948387cc8f0dbc9fa5931d5 ]

Build environments might be running with different umask settings
resulting in indeterministic file modes for the files contained in
kheaders.tar.xz. The file itself is served with 444, i.e. world
readable. Archive the files explicitly with 744,a+X to improve
reproducibility across build environments.

--mode=0444 is not suitable as directories need to be executable. Also,
444 makes it hard to delete all the readonly files after extraction.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation"</title>
<updated>2024-06-27T11:46:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-21T13:23:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 49c386ebbb43394ff4773ce24f726f6afc4c30c8 ]

This reverts commit 700dea5a0bea9f64eba89fae7cb2540326fdfdc1.

The reason for that commit was --sort=ORDER introduced in
tar 1.28 (2014). More than 3 years have passed since then.

Requiring GNU tar 1.28 should be fine now because we require
GCC 5.1 (2015).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3bd27a847a3a ("kheaders: explicitly define file modes for archived headers")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 49c386ebbb43394ff4773ce24f726f6afc4c30c8 ]

This reverts commit 700dea5a0bea9f64eba89fae7cb2540326fdfdc1.

The reason for that commit was --sort=ORDER introduced in
tar 1.28 (2014). More than 3 years have passed since then.

Requiring GNU tar 1.28 should be fine now because we require
GCC 5.1 (2015).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3bd27a847a3a ("kheaders: explicitly define file modes for archived headers")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T19:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-28T02:39:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2df8220cc511326508ec4da2f43ef69311bdd7b9'/>
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Kbuild builds init/built-in.a twice; first during the ordinary
directory descending, second from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

We do this because UTS_VERSION contains the build version and the
timestamp. We cannot update it during the normal directory traversal
since we do not yet know if we need to update vmlinux. UTS_VERSION is
temporarily calculated, but omitted from the update check. Otherwise,
vmlinux would be rebuilt every time.

When Kbuild results in running link-vmlinux.sh, it increments the
version number in the .version file and takes the timestamp at that
time to really fix UTS_VERSION.

However, updating the same file twice is a footgun. To avoid nasty
timestamp issues, all build artifacts that depend on init/built-in.a
are atomically generated in link-vmlinux.sh, where some of them do not
need rebuilding.

To fix this issue, this commit changes as follows:

[1] Split UTS_VERSION out to include/generated/utsversion.h from
    include/generated/compile.h

    include/generated/utsversion.h is generated just before the
    vmlinux link. It is generated under include/generated/ because
    some decompressors (s390, x86) use UTS_VERSION.

[2] Split init_uts_ns and linux_banner out to init/version-timestamp.c
    from init/version.c

    init_uts_ns and linux_banner contain UTS_VERSION. During the ordinary
    directory descending, they are compiled with __weak and used to
    determine if vmlinux needs relinking. Just before the vmlinux link,
    they are compiled without __weak to embed the real version and
    timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Kbuild builds init/built-in.a twice; first during the ordinary
directory descending, second from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

We do this because UTS_VERSION contains the build version and the
timestamp. We cannot update it during the normal directory traversal
since we do not yet know if we need to update vmlinux. UTS_VERSION is
temporarily calculated, but omitted from the update check. Otherwise,
vmlinux would be rebuilt every time.

When Kbuild results in running link-vmlinux.sh, it increments the
version number in the .version file and takes the timestamp at that
time to really fix UTS_VERSION.

However, updating the same file twice is a footgun. To avoid nasty
timestamp issues, all build artifacts that depend on init/built-in.a
are atomically generated in link-vmlinux.sh, where some of them do not
need rebuilding.

To fix this issue, this commit changes as follows:

[1] Split UTS_VERSION out to include/generated/utsversion.h from
    include/generated/compile.h

    include/generated/utsversion.h is generated just before the
    vmlinux link. It is generated under include/generated/ because
    some decompressors (s390, x86) use UTS_VERSION.

[2] Split init_uts_ns and linux_banner out to init/version-timestamp.c
    from init/version.c

    init_uts_ns and linux_banner contain UTS_VERSION. During the ordinary
    directory descending, they are compiled with __weak and used to
    determine if vmlinux needs relinking. Just before the vmlinux link,
    they are compiled without __weak to embed the real version and
    timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kheaders: Have cpio unconditionally replace files</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T18:16:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Mentz</name>
<email>danielmentz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-13T23:36:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1e8ca62b79dec20aeded4fe283f4890e5016767a'/>
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For out-of-tree builds, this script invokes cpio twice to copy header
files from the srctree and subsequently from the objtree. According to a
comment in the script, there might be situations in which certain files
already exist in the destination directory when header files are copied
from the objtree:

"The second CPIO can complain if files already exist which can happen
with out of tree builds having stale headers in srctree. Just silence
CPIO for now."

GNU cpio might simply print a warning like "newer or same age version
exists", but toybox cpio exits with a non-zero exit code unless the
command line option "-u" is specified.

To improve compatibility with toybox cpio, add the command line option
"-u" to unconditionally replace existing files in the destination
directory.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz &lt;danielmentz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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For out-of-tree builds, this script invokes cpio twice to copy header
files from the srctree and subsequently from the objtree. According to a
comment in the script, there might be situations in which certain files
already exist in the destination directory when header files are copied
from the objtree:

"The second CPIO can complain if files already exist which can happen
with out of tree builds having stale headers in srctree. Just silence
CPIO for now."

GNU cpio might simply print a warning like "newer or same age version
exists", but toybox cpio exits with a non-zero exit code unless the
command line option "-u" is specified.

To improve compatibility with toybox cpio, add the command line option
"-u" to unconditionally replace existing files in the destination
directory.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz &lt;danielmentz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: clean up ${quiet} checks in shell scripts</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T19:01:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-17T07:03:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=c39013ee64b5083ec3202aae8a418e9c70baff7a'/>
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There were efforts to make 'make -s' really silent when it is a
warning-free build.

The conventional way was to let a shell script check ${quiet}, and if
it is 'silent_', suppress the stdout by itself.

With the previous commit, the 'cmd' takes care of it now. The 'cmd' is
also invoked from if_changed, if_changed_dep, and if_changed_rule.

You can omit ${quiet} checks in shell scripts when they are invoked
from the 'cmd' macro.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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There were efforts to make 'make -s' really silent when it is a
warning-free build.

The conventional way was to let a shell script check ${quiet}, and if
it is 'silent_', suppress the stdout by itself.

With the previous commit, the 'cmd' takes care of it now. The 'cmd' is
also invoked from if_changed, if_changed_dep, and if_changed_rule.

You can omit ${quiet} checks in shell scripts when they are invoked
from the 'cmd' macro.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: redo fake deps at include/config/*.h</title>
<updated>2021-04-24T20:26:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-15T17:36:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=0e0345b77ac4605d5447b252d220e4a2ee118da7'/>
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Make include/config/foo/bar.h fake deps files generation simpler.

* delete .h suffix
	those aren't header files, shorten filenames,

* delete tolower()
	Linux filesystems can deal with both upper and lowercase
	filenames very well,

* put everything in 1 directory
	Presumably 'mkdir -p' split is from dark times when filesystems
	handled huge directories badly, disks were round adding to
	seek times.

	x86_64 allmodconfig lists 12364 files in include/config.

	../obj/include/config/
	├── 104_QUAD_8
	├── 60XX_WDT
	├── 64BIT
		...
	├── ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON
	├── ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT
	└── ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD

	0 directories, 12364 files

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Make include/config/foo/bar.h fake deps files generation simpler.

* delete .h suffix
	those aren't header files, shorten filenames,

* delete tolower()
	Linux filesystems can deal with both upper and lowercase
	filenames very well,

* put everything in 1 directory
	Presumably 'mkdir -p' split is from dark times when filesystems
	handled huge directories badly, disks were round adding to
	seek times.

	x86_64 allmodconfig lists 12364 files in include/config.

	../obj/include/config/
	├── 104_QUAD_8
	├── 60XX_WDT
	├── 64BIT
		...
	├── ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON
	├── ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT
	└── ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_ZBUD

	0 directories, 12364 files

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: add variables for compression tools</title>
<updated>2020-06-06T14:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Efremov</name>
<email>efremov@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T07:39:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=8dfb61dcbaceb19a5ded5e9c9dcf8d05acc32294'/>
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Allow user to use alternative implementations of compression tools,
such as pigz, pbzip2, pxz. For example, multi-threaded tools to
speed up the build:
$ make GZIP=pigz BZIP2=pbzip2

Variables _GZIP, _BZIP2, _LZOP are used internally because original env
vars are reserved by the tools. The use of GZIP in gzip tool is obsolete
since 2015. However, alternative implementations (e.g., pigz) still rely
on it. BZIP2, BZIP, LZOP vars are not obsolescent.

The credit goes to @grsecurity.

As a sidenote, for multi-threaded lzma, xz compression one can use:
$ export XZ_OPT="--threads=0"

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Allow user to use alternative implementations of compression tools,
such as pigz, pbzip2, pxz. For example, multi-threaded tools to
speed up the build:
$ make GZIP=pigz BZIP2=pbzip2

Variables _GZIP, _BZIP2, _LZOP are used internally because original env
vars are reserved by the tools. The use of GZIP in gzip tool is obsolete
since 2015. However, alternative implementations (e.g., pigz) still rely
on it. BZIP2, BZIP, LZOP vars are not obsolescent.

The credit goes to @grsecurity.

As a sidenote, for multi-threaded lzma, xz compression one can use:
$ export XZ_OPT="--threads=0"

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kheaders: explain why include/config/autoconf.h is excluded from md5sum</title>
<updated>2019-11-11T11:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-08T12:05:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=f276031b4e2f4c961ed6d8a42f0f0124ccac2e09'/>
<id>f276031b4e2f4c961ed6d8a42f0f0124ccac2e09</id>
<content type='text'>
This comment block explains why include/generated/compile.h is omitted,
but nothing about include/generated/autoconf.h, which might be more
difficult to understand. Add more comments.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This comment block explains why include/generated/compile.h is omitted,
but nothing about include/generated/autoconf.h, which might be more
difficult to understand. Add more comments.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kheaders: remove the last bashism to allow sh to run it</title>
<updated>2019-11-11T11:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-08T12:05:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1463f74f492eea7191f0178e01f3d38371a48210'/>
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<content type='text'>
'pushd' ... 'popd' is the last bash-specific code in this script.
One way to avoid it is to run the code in a sub-shell.

With that addressed, you can run this script with sh.

I replaced $(BASH) with $(CONFIG_SHELL), and I changed the hashbang
to #!/bin/sh.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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'pushd' ... 'popd' is the last bash-specific code in this script.
One way to avoid it is to run the code in a sub-shell.

With that addressed, you can run this script with sh.

I replaced $(BASH) with $(CONFIG_SHELL), and I changed the hashbang
to #!/bin/sh.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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