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[3.19.y-ckt,099/160] scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks

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Kamal Mostafa Jan. 20, 2016, 1:06 a.m. UTC 
3.19.8-ckt13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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 <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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 scripts/recordmcount.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c
index e00bcd1..fd42629 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;
 }