From 99e3a1eb3c22bb671c6f3d22d8244bfc9fad8185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cedric Hombourger Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:38:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: fix Module.markers permission error under cygwin While building the kernel, we end-up calling modpost with -K and -M options for the same file (Modules.markers). This is resulting in modpost's main function calling read_markers() and then write_markers() on the same file. We then have read_markers() mmap'ing the file, and writer_markers() opening that same file for writing. The issue is that read_markers() exits without munmap'ing the file and is as a matter holding a reference on Modules.markers. When write_markers() is opening that very same file for writing, we still have a reference on it and cygwin (Windows?) is then making fopen() fail with EPERM. Calling release_file() before exiting read_markers() clears that reference (and memory leak) and fopen() then succeeds. Tested on both cygwin (1.3.22) and Linux. Also ran modpost within valgrind on Linux to make sure that the munmap'ed file was not accessed after read_markers() Signed-off-by: Cedric Hombourger Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 8d46ea7d6715..57d71a5f31b6 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1990,6 +1990,7 @@ static void read_markers(const char *fname) if (!mod->skip) add_marker(mod, marker, fmt); } + release_file(file, size); return; fail: fatal("parse error in markers list file\n");