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 <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dd39a26538e37f6c6131e829a4a510787e43c783 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:09:03 +0000 Subject: scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/scripts-recordmcount-break-hardlinks.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html