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 <chombourger@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 8d46ea7d6715df4e5abbb12b164a6d1aa9bcf213..57d71a5f31b6c0e75ee2d626f79dfdc5ec3b132b 100644 (file)
--- 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");