Re: [PATCH v2 59/62] livepatch/klp-build: Introduce klp-build script for generating livepatch modules

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Jun 11 2025 - 15:09:02 EST


On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 02:44:35PM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> > +get_patch_files() {
> > + local patch="$1"
> > +
> > + grep0 -E '^(--- |\+\+\+ )' "$patch" \
> > + | gawk '{print $2}' \
>
> If we split the rest of this line on the tab character and print the
> first part of $2:
>
> gawk '{ split($2, a, "\t"); print a[1] }'
>
> then it can additionally handle patches generated by `diff -Nupr` with a
> timepstamp ("--- <filepath>\t<timestamp>").

Hm? The default gawk behavior is to treat both tabs and groups of
spaces as field separators:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Default-Field-Splitting.html

And it works for me:

$ diff -Nupr /tmp/meminfo.c fs/proc/meminfo.c > /tmp/a.patch
$ grep -E '^(--- |\+\+\+ )' /tmp/a.patch | gawk '{print $2}'
/tmp/meminfo.c
fs/proc/meminfo.c

Or did I miss something?

> > +# Refresh the patch hunk headers, specifically the line numbers and counts.
> > +refresh_patch() {
> > + local patch="$1"
> > + local tmpdir="$PATCH_TMP_DIR"
> > + local files=()
> > +
> > + rm -rf "$tmpdir"
> > + mkdir -p "$tmpdir/a"
> > + mkdir -p "$tmpdir/b"
> > +
> > + # Find all source files affected by the patch
> > + grep0 -E '^(--- |\+\+\+ )[^ /]+' "$patch" |
> > + sed -E 's/(--- |\+\+\+ )[^ /]+\///' |
> > + sort | uniq | mapfile -t files
> > +
>
> Should just call `get_patch_files() here?

Indeed.

--
Josh