From 631a10745d344c85817ab504f678d2c40ec8ae4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 18:40:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix hashing when path is symlink

---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index fb1f6f5130..70ee924a3a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
                                    (filename, algorithm, ', '.join(AVAILABLE_HASH_ALGORITHMS)))
 
         blocksize = 64 * 1024
-        infile = open(filename, 'rb')
+        infile = open(os.path.realpath(filename), 'rb')
         block = infile.read(blocksize)
         while block:
             digest_method.update(block)