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kbuild: clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 

[ Upstream commit 9b82f13e7ef316cdc0a8858f1349f4defce3f9e0 ]

Right now if SUBLEVEL becomes larger than 255 it will overflow into the
territory of PATCHLEVEL, causing havoc in userspace that tests for
specific kernel version.

While userspace code tests for MAJOR and PATCHLEVEL, it doesn't test
SUBLEVEL at any point as ABI changes don't happen in the context of
stable tree.

Thus, to avoid overflows, simply clamp SUBLEVEL to it's maximum value in
the context of LINUX_VERSION_CODE. This does not affect "make
kernelversion" and such.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Sasha Levin 2021-02-05 22:50:32 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent e622e01d44
commit e9be5518af
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@ -1175,9 +1175,15 @@ define filechk_utsrelease.h
endef
define filechk_version.h
echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE $(shell \
expr $(VERSION) \* 65536 + 0$(PATCHLEVEL) \* 256 + 0$(SUBLEVEL)); \
echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))'
if [ $(SUBLEVEL) -gt 255 ]; then \
echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE $(shell \
expr $(VERSION) \* 65536 + 0$(PATCHLEVEL) \* 256 + 255); \
else \
echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE $(shell \
expr $(VERSION) \* 65536 + 0$(PATCHLEVEL) \* 256 + $(SUBLEVEL)); \
fi; \
echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + \
((c) > 255 ? 255 : (c)))'
endef
$(version_h): FORCE