[PATCH v2] kbuild: quote OBJCOPY var to avoid a pahole call break the build

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 17:52:46 EST


The ccache tool can be used to speed up cross-compilation, by calling the
compiler and binutils through ccache. For example, following should work:

$ export ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE="ccache aarch64-linux-gnu-"

$ make M=drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/

but pahole fails to extract the BTF info from DWARF, breaking the build:

CC [M] drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip//rockchipdrm.mod.o
LD [M] drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip//rockchipdrm.ko
BTF [M] drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip//rockchipdrm.ko
aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy: invalid option -- 'J'
Usage: aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy [option(s)] in-file [out-file]
Copies a binary file, possibly transforming it in the process
...
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:156: __modpost] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:1866: modules] Error 2

this fails because OBJCOPY is set to "ccache aarch64-linux-gnu-copy" and
later pahole is executed with the following command line:

LLVM_OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY) $(PAHOLE) -J --btf_base vmlinux $@

which gets expanded to:

LLVM_OBJCOPY=ccache aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy pahole -J ...

instead of:

LLVM_OBJCOPY="ccache aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy" pahole -J ...

Fixes: 5f9ae91f7c0 ("kbuild: Build kernel module BTFs if BTF is enabled and pahole supports it")
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v2:
- Add collected Acked-by tags.
- Also quote on a similar assignment in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh (masahiroy)

scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 2 +-
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
index dd87cea9fba..a7883e45529 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ quiet_cmd_ld_ko_o = LD [M] $@
quiet_cmd_btf_ko = BTF [M] $@
cmd_btf_ko = \
if [ -f vmlinux ]; then \
- LLVM_OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY) $(PAHOLE) -J --btf_base vmlinux $@; \
+ LLVM_OBJCOPY="$(OBJCOPY)" $(PAHOLE) -J --btf_base vmlinux $@; \
else \
printf "Skipping BTF generation for %s due to unavailability of vmlinux\n" $@ 1>&2; \
fi;
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index f4de4c97015..0e0f6466b18 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ gen_btf()
fi

info "BTF" ${2}
- LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${extra_paholeopt} ${1}
+ LLVM_OBJCOPY="${OBJCOPY}" ${PAHOLE} -J ${extra_paholeopt} ${1}

# Create ${2} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
# SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all
--
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