depmod: handle the case of /sbin/depmod without /sbin in PATH

cedd1862 · Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> · 2020-12-28 11:40:22 -08:00

Commit 436e980e2ed5 ("kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path") stopped
hard-coding the path of depmod, but in the process caused trouble for
distributions that had that /sbin location, but didn't have it in the
PATH (generally because /sbin is limited to the super-user path).

Work around it for now by just adding /sbin to the end of PATH in the
depmod.sh script.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: cedd1862be7e666be87ec824dabc6a2b05618f36
Parents: f6e1ea19

Changes

1 files changed · +2 −0

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scripts/depmod.sh

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diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
index e083bca..3643b4f 100755
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ if ! test -r System.map ; then
 	exit 0
 fi
 
+# legacy behavior: "depmod" in /sbin, no /sbin in PATH
+PATH="$PATH:/sbin"
 if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
 	echo "Warning: 'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
 	echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2