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authorMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2011-07-12 11:54:48 +0200
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2011-07-12 13:36:30 +0200
commit8fc62e59425389a6d48429b9d146223122743435 (patch)
treeda043df805a3b35984b8b2a10e202f6ee37ab268 /scripts/depmod.sh
parent569658dddf276ceb0780776e7f5d61d9f8d8cb88 (diff)
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kbuild: Do not write to builddir in modules_install
Let depmod.sh create a temporary directory in /tmp instead of writing to the build directory as root. The mktemp utility should be available on any recent system (and there is already scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh relying on it). Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/depmod.sh')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/depmod.sh10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
index 3b029cba2baf..a27235685949 100755
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@ fi
# older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three
# numbers, so we cheat with a symlink here
depmod_hack_needed=true
-mkdir -p .tmp_depmod/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE
-if "$DEPMOD" -b .tmp_depmod $KERNELRELEASE 2>/dev/null; then
- if test -e .tmp_depmod/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep -o \
- -e .tmp_depmod/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep.bin; then
+tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/depmod.XXXXXX)
+mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE"
+if "$DEPMOD" -b "$tmp_dir" $KERNELRELEASE 2>/dev/null; then
+ if test -e "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep" -o \
+ -e "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep.bin"; then
depmod_hack_needed=false
fi
fi
+rm -rf "$tmp_dir"
if $depmod_hack_needed; then
symlink="$INSTALL_MOD_PATH/lib/modules/99.98.$KERNELRELEASE"
ln -s "$KERNELRELEASE" "$symlink"