Hi Roger,

> On 11 Feb 2026, at 11:46, Roger Pau Monne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The `-s` option to stat is not POSIX compatible, and hence prevents the
> check-endbr.sh script from running reliably.
> 
> The first instance of `stat -s` 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.

I can confirm compilation works on my side and changes seem coherent
but i would like an x86 maintainer to review/ack this one to confirm that
functionally it is ok.

> 
> Suggested-by: Bertrand Marquis <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Bertrand Marquis <[email protected]>

Cheers
Bertrand

> ---
> xen/tools/check-endbr.sh | 13 +++++++------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh b/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh
> index bf153a570db4..383d7e710a53 100755
> --- a/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh
> +++ b/xen/tools/check-endbr.sh
> @@ -92,14 +92,15 @@ ${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' $TEXT_BIN)
> +# Convert objdump hex reported .text size to decimal
> +bin_sz=$(printf %u $bin_sz)
> [ "$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 +117,8 @@ 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
> 

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