linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kdump: append uts_namespace.name offset to VMCOREINFO

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Date:   Fri, 8 Jan 2021 16:48:16 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@...ux.ibm.com>, dyoung@...hat.com,
        vgoyal@...hat.com, lijiang@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ktkhai@...tuozzo.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, christian.brauner@...ntu.com,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kdump: append uts_namespace.name offset to
 VMCOREINFO

On 01/08/21 at 09:12am, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:32:48AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 09/30/20 at 12:23pm, Alexander Egorenkov wrote:
> > > The offset of the field 'init_uts_ns.name' has changed
> > > since commit 9a56493f6942 ("uts: Use generic ns_common::count").
> > 
> > This patch is merged into 5.11-rc1, but we met the makedumpfile failure
> > of kdump test case in 5.10.0 kernel. Should affect 5.9 too since
> > commit 9a56493f6942 is merged into 5.9-rc2.
> > 
> > Below tag and CC should have been added into patch when posted. 
> > 
> > Fixes: commit 9a56493f6942 ("uts: Use generic ns_common::count")
> > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Do we still have chance to make it added into stable?
> 
> Sure, what is the git commit id of this patch in Linus's tree?

This commit:

ca4a9241cc5e kdump: append uts_namespace.name offset to VMCOREINFO

> 
> In the future, please read:
>     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> for how to do this properly.

Sure, will do as the doc said in the future, thanks a lot for the
pointer.

Thanks
Baoquan