bitbake: cooker: detect malformed BBMASK expressions which begin with a separator

When constructing an older style single regex, it's possible for BBMASK
to end up beginning with '|', which matches and masks _everything_.

(Bitbake rev: 56ad67017e601c7e0f6085ca84e29c28d8d4519f)

Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
index ce84e1c745..662a7ac071 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py
@@ -1900,6 +1900,11 @@ class CookerCollectFiles(object):
             # that do not compile
             bbmasks = []
             for mask in bbmask.split():
+                # When constructing an older style single regex, it's possible for BBMASK
+                # to end up beginning with '|', which matches and masks _everything_.
+                if mask.startswith("|"):
+                    collectlog.warn("BBMASK contains regular expression beginning with '|', fixing: %s" % mask)
+                    mask = mask[1:]
                 try:
                     re.compile(mask)
                     bbmasks.append(mask)