kbuild: fix infinite make recursion

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> reported:
You can cause a recursion in kbuild/make with the following:

make O=$PWD kernel/time.o
make mrproper

Of course no one would use O=$PWD (that's just the testcase),
but this happened too often:

/ws/linux/linux-2.6.23$ make O=/ws/linux/linux-2.6.23 kernel/time.o
(Oops - should have been O=/ws/linux/obj-2.6.23!)

Fixed by an explicit test for this case - we error
out if output directory and source directory are the same.

Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2738966e1d3786b9d602b087efe998fee6f7636e..1b0d84d4961281acacbcd85caec8180878c97f3e 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ saved-output := $(KBUILD_OUTPUT)
 KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(shell cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && /bin/pwd)
 $(if $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),, \
      $(error output directory "$(saved-output)" does not exist))
-
+# Check that OUTPUT directory is not the same as where we have kernel src
+$(if $(filter-out $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),$(shell /bin/pwd)),, \
+     $(error Output directory (O=...) specifies kernel src dir))
 PHONY += $(MAKECMDGOALS)
 
 $(filter-out _all,$(MAKECMDGOALS)) _all: