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depmod gets stuck in symlink cycle in arch/arm/boot/dts/include

Started byOmar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
First post2017-05-13 00:30 +0200
Last post2017-05-13 07:10 +0200
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  depmod gets stuck in symlink cycle in arch/arm/boot/dts/include Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> - 2017-05-13 00:30 +0200
    Re: depmod gets stuck in symlink cycle in arch/arm/boot/dts/include Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> - 2017-05-13 01:00 +0200
    Re: depmod gets stuck in symlink cycle in arch/arm/boot/dts/include Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> - 2017-05-13 07:10 +0200

#1640791 — depmod gets stuck in symlink cycle in arch/arm/boot/dts/include

FromOmar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Date2017-05-13 00:30 +0200
Subjectdepmod gets stuck in symlink cycle in arch/arm/boot/dts/include
Message-ID<tGreq-2Wd-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Hi,

Linux kernel commit 4027494ae6e3 ("ARM: dts: add arm/arm64 include
symlinks") introduced a couple of symlink cycles:

$ ls -al arch/arm{,64}/boot/dts/include
arch/arm64/boot/dts/include:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users  38 May 11 14:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 320 Jan 25 20:44 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users  24 May 11 14:01 arm -> ../../../../arm/boot/dts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users   2 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users  34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings

arch/arm/boot/dts/include:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users    38 May 11 14:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 63102 May 11 14:01 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users     2 May 11 14:01 arm -> ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users    26 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> ../../../../arm64/boot/dts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users    34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings

On my system, /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel is a symlink to
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build, which is my built linux.git. depmod
doesn't like these symlink cycles and ends up in an infinite loop.

Maybe I shouldn't be symlinking kernel to build like this, but depmod
shouldn't be getting stuck like this either. I wonder if anything else
is going to barf on these symlink cycles, too.

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#1640798

FromOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Date2017-05-13 01:00 +0200
Message-ID<tGrHr-39Y-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1640791
Yeah, the location of the include directory needs to move. I'll post a
patch shortly. Russell reported it earlier but the week got busy and I
lost track of it.

The easiest solution here is to move the dts/include directory to
somewhere else.


-Olof

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Linux kernel commit 4027494ae6e3 ("ARM: dts: add arm/arm64 include
> symlinks") introduced a couple of symlink cycles:
>
> $ ls -al arch/arm{,64}/boot/dts/include
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/include:
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users  38 May 11 14:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 320 Jan 25 20:44 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users  24 May 11 14:01 arm -> ../../../../arm/boot/dts
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users   2 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users  34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/include:
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users    38 May 11 14:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 63102 May 11 14:01 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users     2 May 11 14:01 arm -> ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users    26 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> ../../../../arm64/boot/dts
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users    34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings
>
> On my system, /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel is a symlink to
> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build, which is my built linux.git. depmod
> doesn't like these symlink cycles and ends up in an infinite loop.
>
> Maybe I shouldn't be symlinking kernel to build like this, but depmod
> shouldn't be getting stuck like this either. I wonder if anything else
> is going to barf on these symlink cycles, too.

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#1640837

FromYauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com>
Date2017-05-13 07:10 +0200
Message-ID<tGxtv-7z5-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1640791
Hi, Omar!

>>>>> On Fri, 12 May 2017 15:23:07 -0700, Omar Sandoval  wrote:

 > Hi,
 > Linux kernel commit 4027494ae6e3 ("ARM: dts: add arm/arm64 include
 > symlinks") introduced a couple of symlink cycles:

 > $ ls -al arch/arm{,64}/boot/dts/include
 > arch/arm64/boot/dts/include:
 > total 12
 > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users  38 May 11 14:01 .
 > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 320 Jan 25 20:44 ..
 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users  24 May 11 14:01 arm -> ../../../../arm/boot/dts
 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users   2 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> ..
 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings ->
 > ../../../../../include/dt-bindings

 > arch/arm/boot/dts/include:
 > total 12
 > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users    38 May 11 14:01 .
 > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 63102 May 11 14:01 ..
 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users     2 May 11 14:01 arm -> ..
 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users    26 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> ../../../../arm64/boot/dts
 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings ->
 > ../../../../../include/dt-bindings

 > On my system, /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel is a symlink to
 > /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build, which is my built linux.git. depmod
 > doesn't like these symlink cycles and ends up in an infinite loop.

 > Maybe I shouldn't be symlinking kernel to build like this, but depmod
 > shouldn't be getting stuck like this either. I wonder if anything else
 > is going to barf on these symlink cycles, too.

depmod checks for special names "build" and "source" to skip them.

I wonder if it worth to implement full symlink loop check.

-- 
WBR,
Yauheni Kaliuta

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