1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
index c8f139b192..9fc56eaa0f 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
@@ -703,9 +703,11 @@ def copyfile(src, dest, newmtime = None, sstat = None):
             os.rename(dest + "#new", dest)
         except Exception as e:
             print('copyfile: copy', src, '->', dest, 'failed.', e)
-            os.chmod(src, stat.S_IMODE(sstat[stat.ST_MODE]))
-            os.utime(src, (sstat[stat.ST_ATIME], sstat[stat.ST_MTIME]))
             return False
+        finally:
+            os.chmod(src, sstat[stat.ST_MODE])
+            os.utime(src, (sstat[stat.ST_ATIME], sstat[stat.ST_MTIME]))
+
     else:
         #we don't yet handle special, so we need to fall back to /bin/mv
         a = getstatusoutput("/bin/cp -f " + "'" + src + "' '" + dest + "'")