[Buildroot] [PATCH] [RFC] core/download: fix when the BR2_DL_DIR does not accept hardlinks

[Yann E. MORIN]

When the BR2_DL_DIR is a mountpoint (presumably shared between various
machine, or mounted from the local host when running in a VM), it is
possible that it does not support hardlinks (e.g. samba, or the VMWare
VMFS, etc...).

If the hardlink fails, fallback to copying the file. As a last resort,
if that also fails, eventually fallback to doing the download.

Note: this means that the dl-wrapper is no longer atomic-safe: the code
suffers of a TOCTTOU condition: the file may be created in-between the
check and the moment we try to ln/cp it. Fortnately, the dl-wrapper is
now run under an flock, so we're still safe. If we eventually go for a
more fine-grained implementation, we'll have to be careful then.

Reported-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>

---
Note: the TOCTTOU condition has been introduced e80d1d0af448.

Note: RFC, because I didn't test it...

---
 support/download/dl-wrapper | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/support/download/dl-wrapper b/support/download/dl-wrapper
index ce44752df0..38430738eb 100755
--- a/support/download/dl-wrapper
+++ b/support/download/dl-wrapper
@@ -56,8 +56,13 @@ main() {
     # Legacy handling: check if the file already exists in the global
     # download directory. If it does, hard-link it. If it turns out it
     # was an incorrect download, we'd still check it below anyway.
+    # If we can neither link nor copy, fallback to doing a download.
+    # NOTE! This is not atomic, is subject to TOCTTOU, but the whole
+    # dl-wrapper runs under an flock, so we're safe.
     if [ ! -e "${output}" -a -e "${old_dl_dir}/${filename}" ]; then
-        ln "${old_dl_dir}/${filename}" "${output}"
+        ln "${old_dl_dir}/${filename}" "${output}" || \
+        cp "${old_dl_dir}/${filename}" "${output}" || \
+        true
     fi
 
     # If the output file already exists and:
-- 
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