6.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org
[ Upstream commit 61f7e318e99d3b398670518dd3f4f8510d1800fc ]
If a default variable contains itself, do not recurse on it.
For example:
ADD_CONFIG := ${CONFIG_DIR}/temp_config DEFAULTS ADD_CONFIG = ${CONFIG_DIR}/default_config ${ADD_CONFIG}
The above works because the temp variable ADD_CONFIG (is a temp because it is created with ":=") is already defined, it will be substituted in the variable option. But if it gets commented out:
# ADD_CONFIG := ${CONFIG_DIR}/temp_config DEFAULTS ADD_CONFIG = ${CONFIG_DIR}/default_config ${ADD_CONFIG}
Then the above will go into a recursive loop where ${ADD_CONFIG} will get replaced with the current definition of ADD_CONFIG which contains the ${ADD_CONFIG} and that will also try to get converted. ktest.pl will error after 100 attempts of recursion and fail.
When replacing a variable with the default variable, if the default variable contains itself, do not replace it.
Cc: "John Warthog9 Hawley" warthog9@kernel.org Cc: Dhaval Giani dhaval.giani@gmail.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250718202053.732189428@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl index a5f7fdd0c1fb..e1d31e2aa948 100755 --- a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl +++ b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl @@ -1371,7 +1371,10 @@ sub __eval_option { # If a variable contains itself, use the default var if (($var eq $name) && defined($opt{$var})) { $o = $opt{$var}; - $retval = "$retval$o"; + # Only append if the default doesn't contain itself + if ($o !~ m/${$var}/) { + $retval = "$retval$o"; + } } elsif (defined($opt{$o})) { $o = $opt{$o}; $retval = "$retval$o";