On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 09:57:38AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> arch/um/Makefile passes the -f option to the ln command:
>
> $(Q)ln -f $< $@
>
> So, the hard link is always re-created, and the old one is removed
> anyway.
Hah, yeah, that's a bit of ARCH=um redundancy.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> index a6c4d0bce3ba..7b9c62e4d54a 100755
> --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> @@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ vmlinux_link()
> -Wl,-T,${lds} \
> ${objects} \
> -lutil -lrt -lpthread
> - rm -f linux
> fi
> }
>
> --
> 2.30.2
>
--
Kees Cook
