linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: gdb: vfs: Support external dentry names

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Message-ID: <a5be20ce-ec88-4ddc-96d2-21c6ace682e6@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 10:48:10 -0700
From: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
To: Illia Ostapyshyn <illia@...yn.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>, Kieran Bingham
 <kbingham@...nel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: gdb: vfs: Support external dentry names

On 6/28/25 17:38, Illia Ostapyshyn wrote:
> d_shortname of struct dentry only reserves D_NAME_INLINE_LEN characters
> and contains garbage for longer names.  Use d_name instead, which always
> references the valid name.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250525213709.878287-2-illia@yshyn.com/
> Fixes: 79300ac805b672a84b64 ("scripts/gdb: fix dentry_name() lookup")
> Signed-off-by: Illia Ostapyshyn <illia@...yn.com>

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>

Thanks Illia!
-- 
Florian