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Symptom:
The command
find ... | xargs ... perl -i
occasionally triggers error messages like the following, with the build
still succeeding:
Can't open <redacted>/kernel/.tmp_dir/include/dt-bindings/clock/XXNX4nW9: No such file or directory.
Analysis:
With strace, the root cause has been identified to be `perl -i` creating
temporary files inside ${tmpdir}, which causes `find` to see the
temporary files and emit the names. `find` is likely implemented with
readdir. POSIX `readdir` says:
If a file is removed from or added to the directory after the most
recent call to opendir() or rewinddir(), whether a subsequent call
to readdir() returns an entry for that file is unspecified.
So if the libc that `find` links against choose to return that entry
in readdir(), a possible sequence of events is the following:
1. find emits foo.h
2. xargs executes `perl -i foo.h`
3. perl (pid=100) creates temporary file `XXXXXXXX`
4. find sees file `XXXXXXXX` and emit it
5. PID 100 exits, cleaning up the temporary file `XXXXXXXX`
6. xargs executes `perl -i XXXXXXXX`
7. perl (pid=200) tries to read the file, but it doesn't exist any more.
... triggering the error message.
One can reproduce the bug with the following command (assuming PWD
contains the list of headers in kheaders.tar.xz)
for i in $(seq 100); do
find -type f -print0 |
xargs -0 -P8 -n1 perl -pi -e 'BEGIN {undef $/;}; s/\/\*((?!SPDX).)*?\*\///smg;';
done
With a `find` linking against musl libc, the error message is emitted
6/100 times.
The fix:
This change stores the results of `find` before feeding them into xargs.
find and xargs will no longer be able to see temporary files that perl
creates after this change.
Signed-off-by: HONG Yifan <elsk@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.