[JENKINS-40421] Too many levels of symbolic links/Archiving artifact stuck

When we have the symbolic links in src code like,

dir1 -> .
dir2 -> ../../../..

Symptoms observed during this problematic phase:

The “Archiving artifact” step under Post- build phase get stuck. We can see the never ending cycling icon…
the slave node will report error like “too many levels of symbolic links” and ping response time would gradually degrade, eventually killing the slave.
the build log may also have error like WARN: Caught error while checking for symbolic links

is related to

JENKINS-36559 File pattern (e.g. archive) field validation can run forever

JENKINS-40999 Recursive symlink causes high resource utilization, termination of slave process in ArchiveArtifact and Publish JUnit results steps.

JENKINS-41135 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with 100% CPU usage

Audrey Azra created issue - 2016-12-13 21:00

Daniel Beck made changes - 2017-01-19 14:01

Link

New: This issue is related to JENKINS-40999 [ JENKINS-40999 ]

Daniel Beck made changes - 2017-01-19 14:01

Link

New: This issue is related to JENKINS-36559 [ JENKINS-36559 ]

Daniel Beck made changes - 2017-01-24 16:46

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New: This issue is related to ~~JENKINS-41135~~ [ ~~JENKINS-41135~~ ]

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