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Subject[PATCH 1/2] scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks
From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

recordmcount edits the file in-place, which can cause problems when
using ccache in hardlink mode. Arrange for recordmcount to break a
hardlinked object.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1a7MVT-0000et-62@rmk-PC.arm.linux.org.uk

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
scripts/recordmcount.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c
index 698768bdc581..91705ef30402 100644
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.c
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c
@@ -211,6 +211,20 @@ static void *mmap_file(char const *fname)
addr = umalloc(sb.st_size);
uread(fd_map, addr, sb.st_size);
}
+ if (sb.st_nlink != 1) {
+ /* file is hard-linked, break the hard link */
+ close(fd_map);
+ if (unlink(fname) < 0) {
+ perror(fname);
+ fail_file();
+ }
+ fd_map = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, sb.st_mode);
+ if (fd_map < 0) {
+ perror(fname);
+ fail_file();
+ }
+ uwrite(fd_map, addr, sb.st_size);
+ }
return addr;
}

--
2.6.2



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