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authorLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2026-03-14 18:23:52 +0000
committerLeah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>2026-03-14 18:23:52 +0000
commitcf5708957b8dab8d273dec4cf5de4797f9bc3879 (patch)
tree1719ff114a74b15bd42d843e7d7bec478568de99
parenta80c1890118ee07334fedc6567e6e229bf747970 (diff)
util/nvmutil: warn about gbe.bin hard links
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
-rw-r--r--util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c b/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c
index ed5eef08..a10758c7 100644
--- a/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c
+++ b/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c
@@ -937,6 +937,11 @@ open_gbe_file(void)
gbe_dev = gbe_st.st_dev;
gbe_ino = gbe_st.st_ino;
+ if (gbe_st.st_nlink > 1)
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "%s: warning: file has %lu hard links\n",
+ fname, (ulong)gbe_st.st_nlink);
+
if (gbe_st.st_nlink == 0)
err(EIO, "%s: file unlinked while open", fname);