On Friday 2016-04-01 22:35, Matthias Schiffer wrote:

>The kernel version detection code uses some bashisms, which makes the build
>fail on Debian systems where /bin/sh links to dash. Replace with POSIX-
>conforming commands at the cost of requiring awk.
>+      krel="$(make -sC "$kbuilddir" M=$PWD kernelrelease | $AWK -v 
>'FS=[[^0-9.]]' '{print $1; exit}')";
>+      save_IFS=$IFS;
>+      IFS='.';
>+      set x $krel;
>+      kmajor="$(($2+0))";
>+      kminor="$(($3+0))";
>+      kmicro="$(($4+0))";
>+      kstable="$(($5+0))";
>+      IFS=$save_IFS;
>       if test -z "$kmajor" -o -z "$kminor" -o -z "$kmicro"; then

To test its resilience against silly krel strings (not exactly unheard of),
let's pretend that

        krel="4x.6.0"

The previous code would conclude (albeit with a silly broken-up version like
4.0.6.0 or 0.0.0.0). However, your change makes the script totally falls over:

checking kernel version that we will build against... ./configure: line
11957: 4x: value too great for base (error toke
n is "4x")
./configure: line 8: printf %s\n: command not found
./configure: line 14: AMDEPBACKSLASH: command not found
./configure: line 15: AMDEP_FALSE: command not found
./configure: line 16: AMDEP_TRUE: command not found
./configure: line 17: AMTAR: command not found
[...]

(and who knows what other commands - rm? - it tries to execute by sheer
chance).
Is it possible to harden the dash-compatible variant?
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