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[v6,kspp-next,03/22] kbuild: do not remove 'linux' link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh

Message ID 20210831144114.154-4-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Commit Message

Alexander Lobakin Aug. 31, 2021, 2:40 p.m. UTC 
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

arch/um/Makefile passes the -f option to the ln command:

  linux: vmlinux
          @echo '  LINK $@'
          $(Q)ln -f $< $@

So, the hard link is always re-created, and the old one is removed
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
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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
 }