From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com ([198.2.177.1]:49747 "EHLO mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752416AbcCAIYw (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 03:24:52 -0500 Received: from pmta06.mandrill.prod.suw01.rsglab.com (127.0.0.1) by mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com id hql8t822rtkh for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 08:24:49 +0000 (envelope-from ) From: Subject: Patch "scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree To: , , Cc: , Message-Id: <1456820686231211@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:24:50 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scripts-recordmcount-break-hardlinks.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From dd39a26538e37f6c6131e829a4a510787e43c783 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell King Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:09:03 +0000 Subject: scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks From: Russell King commit dd39a26538e37f6c6131e829a4a510787e43c783 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- scripts/recordmcount.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) --- a/scripts/recordmcount.c +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c @@ -189,6 +189,20 @@ 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; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk are queue-3.14/scripts-recordmcount-break-hardlinks.patch