Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkkconfigsymbols.py: Forbid passing 'HEAD' to --commit

From: Ariel Marcovitch
Date: Sun Aug 29 2021 - 09:23:38 EST


Hello!

On 24/08/2021 16:31, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 4:23 AM Ariel Marcovitch
<arielmarcovitch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As opposed to the --diff option, --commit can get ref names instead of
commit hashes.

When using the --commit option, the script resets the working directory
to the commit before the given ref, by adding '~' to the end of the ref.

However, the 'HEAD' ref is relative, and so when the working directory
is reset to 'HEAD~', 'HEAD' points to what was 'HEAD~'. Then when the
script resets to 'HEAD' it actually stays in the same commit. In this
case, the script won't report any cases because there is no diff between
the cases of the two refs.

Prevent the user from using HEAD refs.

A better solution might be to resolve the refs before doing the
reset, but for now just disallow such refs.

Better than doing nothing.
So, applied to linux-kbuild.





Signed-off-by: Ariel Marcovitch <arielmarcovitch@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
index 875e9a2c14b2..6259698e662d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ def parse_options():
"continue.")

if args.commit:
+ if args.commit.startswith('HEAD'):
+ sys.exit("The --commit option can't get use the HEAD ref")

Just realized that the message says "can't get use" which doesn't make
much sense :)

Do you want me to send a new patch to fix it?

+
args.find = False

if args.ignore:
--
2.25.1


Thanks for your time :)

Ariel Marcovitch