depmod.pl: add recursive sanity check

If modules contain circular dependencies, the depmod script will follow
the circle forever.  So add a simple sanity check to abort rather than
chew up the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/examples/depmod.pl b/examples/depmod.pl
index 8c6548d28..f324b121a 100755
--- a/examples/depmod.pl
+++ b/examples/depmod.pl
@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ sub add_mod_deps
 
         $depth .= " ";
         warn "${depth}loading deps of module: $this_module\n" if $verbose;
+        if (length($depth) > 50) {
+                die "too much recursion (circular dependencies in modules?)";
+        }
 
         foreach my $md (keys %{$mod->{$this_module}}) {
                 add_mod_deps ($depth, $mod, $mod2, $module, $md);