From c94b728af1452c81a7e02ba615e732e75dbc654c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Derek Cofausper <256792747+decofe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:39:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ci): clean up root-owned bench-work dir before checkout
 (#22661)

Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
---
 .github/workflows/bench.yml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/bench.yml b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
index bc264ce9a4..5633d42db6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bench.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
@@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ jobs:
       BENCH_CORES: ${{ needs.reth-bench-ack.outputs.cores }}
       BENCH_COMMENT_ID: ${{ needs.reth-bench-ack.outputs.comment-id }}
     steps:
+      - name: Clean up previous bench-work
+        run: sudo rm -rf "$BENCH_WORK_DIR" 2>/dev/null || true
+
       - name: Resolve checkout ref
         id: checkout-ref
         uses: actions/github-script@v8