much, much stricter, more verbose error handling

lbmk is much more likely to crash now, in error conditions,
which is a boon for further auditing.

also: in "fetch", remove the downloaded program
if fail() was called.

this would also be done for gnulib, when downloading
grub, but done in such a way that gnulib goes first.

where calls to err write "ERROR" in the string, they
no longer say "ERROR" because the "err" function itself
now does that automatically.

also: listmodes/listoptions (in "lbmk") now reports an
error if no scripts and/or directories are found.

also: where a warning is given, but not an error, i've
gone through in some places and redirected the output
to stderr, not stdout

as part of error checks: running anything as root, except
for the "./build dependencies *" commands, is no longer
permitted and lbmk will throw an error

mrc downloads: debugfs output no longer redirected to /dev/null,
and stderr no longer redirected to stdout. everything is verbose.

certain non-error states are also more verbose. for example,
patch_rom in blobs/inject will now state when injection succeeds

certain actual errors(bugs) were fixed:
for example, build/release/roms now correctly prepares the blobs
hash files for a given target, containing only the files and
checksums in the list. Previously, a printf message was included.
Now, with this new code: blobutil/inject rightly verifies hashes.

doing all of this in one giant patch is cleaner
than 100 patches changing each file. even this is yet part
of a much larger audit going on in the Libreboot project.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/resources/scripts/build/coreboot/utils b/resources/scripts/build/coreboot/utils
index d381f9e2..bf0c47a7 100755
--- a/resources/scripts/build/coreboot/utils
+++ b/resources/scripts/build/coreboot/utils
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ build_for_mainboard() {
 	tree="undefined"
 	. "resources/coreboot/${board}/target.cfg" # source
 	[ "${tree}" = "undefined" ] && \
-		err "build/cbutils: improper tree definition for '${board}'"
+	    err "build_for_mainboard: improper tree definition for '${board}'"
 	buildutils "${tree}"
 }
 
@@ -56,19 +56,22 @@ buildutils() {
 	tree="${1}"
 	[ -d "coreboot/${tree}/" ] || \
 		./fetch_trees coreboot $tree || \
-		    err "cannot fetch ${tree}"
+		    err "buildutils: cannot fetch ${tree}"
 	for util in cbfstool ifdtool; do
 		[ -f "cbutils/${tree}/${util}" ] && continue
 		[ -d "cbutils/${tree}" ] || \
 			mkdir -p "cbutils/${tree}" || \
-			    err "cannot create directory, cbutils/${tree}"
+			    err "buildutils: can't mkdir cbutils/${tree}"
 
 		utildir="coreboot/${tree}/util/${util}"
-		make distclean -C "${utildir}" || err "cannot clean ${utildir}"
-		make -j$(nproc) -C "${utildir}" || err "cannot build ${utildir}"
+		make distclean -C "${utildir}" || \
+		    err "buildutils: cannot clean ${utildir}"
+		make -j$(nproc) -C "${utildir}" || \
+		    err "buildutils: cannot build ${utildir}"
 		cp "${utildir}/${util}" "cbutils/${tree}" || \
-		    err "cannot copy util, ${util}, to cbutils/${tree}/"
-		make distclean -C "${utildir}" || err "can't clean ${utildir}"
+		    err "buildutils: can't cp ${util} cbutils/${tree}/"
+		make distclean -C "${utildir}" || \
+		    err "buildutils: can't clean ${utildir}"
 	done
 }