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The GNU coreutils version of truncate, which is the original, accepts a % prefix for the -s size argument which means the file in question should be padded to a multiple of the given size. This is currently used to pad the setup block of bzImage to a multiple of 4k before appending the decompressor. busybox reimplements truncate but does not support this idiom, and therefore fails the build since commit9c54baab44("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it") Since very little build code within the kernel depends on the 'truncate' utility, work around this incompatibility by avoiding truncate altogether, and relying on dd to perform the padding. Fixes:9c54baab44("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it") Reported-by: <phasta@kernel.org> Tested-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424101917.1552527-2-ardb+git@google.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.