[PATCH v2 2/5] xen/tools: remove usages of `stat -c` in check-endbr.sh

Roger Pau Monne posted 5 patches 1 month, 4 weeks ago
[PATCH v2 2/5] xen/tools: remove usages of `stat -c` in check-endbr.sh
Posted by Roger Pau Monne 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The `-c` option to stat is not POSIX compatible, and hence prevents the
check-endbr.sh script from running reliably.

The first instance of `stat -c` can be removed by fetching the section size
from the output of objdump itself, which the script already parses to get
the VMA values.

The other two instances can be replaced by counting the lines in the
respective files.  Those files contain list of addresses, so the size in
bytes is not strictly needed, we can count the number of lines instead.

Suggested-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
---
Changes since v1:
 - Use $(()) to convert from hex to decimal.
---
 xen/tools/check-endbr.sh | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh b/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh
index bf153a570db4..aaaa9ebe6bd7 100755
--- a/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh
+++ b/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh
@@ -92,14 +92,13 @@ ${OBJDUMP} -j .text $1 -d -w | grep '	endbr64 *$' | cut -f 1 -d ':' > $VALID &
 #    check nevertheless.
 #
 eval $(${OBJDUMP} -j .text $1 -h |
-    $AWK '$2 == ".text" {printf "vma_hi=%s\nvma_lo=%s\n", substr($4, 1, 9), substr($4, 10, 16)}')
+    $AWK '$2 == ".text" {printf "bin_sz=%s\nvma_hi=%s\nvma_lo=%s\n", "0x" $3, substr($4, 1, 9), substr($4, 10, 16)}')
 
-${OBJCOPY} -j .text $1 -O binary $TEXT_BIN
-
-bin_sz=$(stat -c '%s' $TEXT_BIN)
-[ "$bin_sz" -ge $(((1 << 28) - $vma_lo)) ] &&
+[ "$(($bin_sz))" -ge $(((1 << 28) - $vma_lo)) ] &&
     { echo "$MSG_PFX Error: .text offsets must not exceed 256M" >&2; exit 1; }
 
+${OBJCOPY} -j .text $1 -O binary $TEXT_BIN
+
 # instruction:    hex:           oct:
 # endbr64         f3 0f 1e fa    363 017 036 372
 # endbr32         f3 0f 1e fb    363 017 036 373
@@ -116,8 +115,8 @@ fi | $AWK -F':' '{printf "%s%07x\n", "'$vma_hi'", int('$((0x$vma_lo))') + $1}' >
 wait
 
 # Sanity check $VALID and $ALL, in case the string parsing bitrots
-val_sz=$(stat -c '%s' $VALID)
-all_sz=$(stat -c '%s' $ALL)
+val_sz=$(wc -l < $VALID)
+all_sz=$(wc -l < $ALL)
 [ "$val_sz" -eq 0 ]         && { echo "$MSG_PFX Error: Empty valid-addrs" >&2; exit 1; }
 [ "$all_sz" -eq 0 ]         && { echo "$MSG_PFX Error: Empty all-addrs" >&2; exit 1; }
 [ "$all_sz" -lt "$val_sz" ] && { echo "$MSG_PFX Error: More valid-addrs than all-addrs" >&2; exit 1; }
-- 
2.51.0


Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] xen/tools: remove usages of `stat -c` in check-endbr.sh
Posted by Jan Beulich 1 month, 4 weeks ago
On 12.02.2026 15:46, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> The `-c` option to stat is not POSIX compatible, and hence prevents the
> check-endbr.sh script from running reliably.
> 
> The first instance of `stat -c` can be removed by fetching the section size
> from the output of objdump itself, which the script already parses to get
> the VMA values.
> 
> The other two instances can be replaced by counting the lines in the
> respective files.  Those files contain list of addresses, so the size in
> bytes is not strictly needed, we can count the number of lines instead.
> 
> Suggested-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> Acked-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>