[PATCH] scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks

Russell King rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Dec 11 04:09:03 PST 2015


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

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
Steven, sorry it took a while to get this out...

 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;
 }
 
-- 
2.1.0




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