Hi John, On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 23:48:11 -0700 John Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote: > > commit 30fb9454ab23 ("selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs > dependency") created the new check_config.sh file without the execute > bits set. This is a problem because the Makefile runs it with "./", so > now "make" is failing in that directory. > > The posted patch [1] does seem to have it as an executable file, so I'm > not sure how this happened. But in any case, make check_config.sh > executable again, so that "make" in selftests/vm works once again.
The correct fix is to make sure that the Makefile runs it explicitly
with a shell because is such a patch is applied with patch(1), the
execute bit will not be preserved.
See e.g. in the top level Makefile:
$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh $@
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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