linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Fix dentry

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Message-Id: <20250626150926.2653ed11d267b366c26e1651@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:09:26 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
Cc: Illia Ostapyshyn <illia@...yn.com>, jack@...e.cz,
 jan.kiszka@...mens.com, jlayton@...nel.org, kbingham@...nel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Fix dentry_name() lookup

On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:19:25 -0700 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com> wrote:

> Hi Illia,
> 
> On 6/26/25 10:01, Illia Ostapyshyn wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
> > 
> > I have previously submitted (and resent due to inactivity) an equivalent
> > patch here:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250428142117.3455683-1-illia@yshyn.com/
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250525213709.878287-2-illia@yshyn.com/
> 
> Ah my bad, I had not seen your submission, then it should be taken 
> instead of mine, but with the Fixes: tag added so that your patch can 
> get back ported to stable trees.
> 
> > 
> > However, looks like d_shortname is not suitable for entries with name
> > longer than D_NAME_INLINE_LEN characters.  Although this matches the
> > previous behavior of the GDB script (before 58cf9c383c5c68666808), I was
> > planning to resubmit a v2 that addresses this issue as well.
> 
> Sure, please do! Andrew can you drop my patch in favor of Illia's when 
> it shows up?

I've moved your "scripts/gdb: Fix dentry_name() lookup" into mm.git's
non-rebasing mm-hotfixes-stable branch in preparation for upstreaming
today or tomorrow.  So I'd prefer not to mess with it now.

Illia, can you please propose your fix against a tree which contains
Florian's patch?