linux-kernel - Re: weird and wrong directory entries

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Message-ID: <54C1C04C.40205@ahsoftware.de>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:30:20 +0100
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: weird and wrong directory entries

Am 23.01.2015 um 03:06 schrieb Sergey Senozhatsky:
> On (01/23/15 01:30), Al Viro wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:42:21AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>>> Hello gents,
>>>
>>> I observe this sick behaviour for the past few days. (sorry, some lines are
>>> over 80 symbols). all of the things above are happening during kernel compilation.
>>> attached .config.
>>
>>> happens both on reiserfs and ext4, both on current linus's tree and linux-next.
>>> no doubt, an attempt to rm -fr pkg/   kills   /usr/, etc.
>>>
>>
>>> I'm puzzled. any thoughts?
>>
>> Try to bisect, perhaps?
>>

There are some weird pieces in the kernel buildsysten which are
generating Makefile content based on some filenames and might brake or
confuse future builds. See e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/19/10.

Maybe you've stumbled over a similiar thing.

Regards,

Alexander Holler

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