kheaders: explicitly validate existence of cpio command

If the cpio command is not available the error emitted by
gen_kheaders.so is not clear as all output of the call to cpio is
discarded:

GNU make 4.4:

  GEN     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
find: 'standard output': Broken pipe
find: write error
make[2]: *** [kernel/Makefile:157: kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 127
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:504: kernel] Error 2

GNU make < 4.4:

  GEN     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
make[2]: *** [kernel/Makefile:157: kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 127
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:504: kernel] Error 2

Add an explicit check that will trigger a clear message about the issue:

  CHK     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
./kernel/gen_kheaders.sh: line 17: type: cpio: not found

The other commands executed by gen_kheaders.sh are part of a standard
installation, so they are not checked.

Reported-by: Amy Parker <apark0006@student.cerritos.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAPOgqxFva=tOuh1UitCSN38+28q3BNXKq19rEsVNPRzRqKqZ+g@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
index 473036b43c832b2a94c8eef8edb9ef82c11b9a6c..81b97f0f65564e9dafc66c89d8627c8429939306 100755 (executable)
--- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
+++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ include/
 arch/$SRCARCH/include/
 "
 
+type cpio > /dev/null
+
 # Support incremental builds by skipping archive generation
 # if timestamps of files being archived are not changed.