Re: regression: 9a56493f6942 "uts: Use generic ns_common::count" broke makedumpfile 1.6.7

From: Alexander Egorenkov
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 06:54:47 EST


Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi, Alexander,
>
> On 16.12.2020 14:02, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> With this commit, bisected and confirmed, kdump stops working here,
>> makedumpfile saying "check_release: Can't get the kernel version".
>
> hasn't your commit 55d9e11398a4 "kdump: append uts_namespace.name offset to VMCOREINFO"
> fixed this issue?
>
> What problem with offset we meet here in case of uts_namespace is even marked with __randomize_layout?
>
> Kirill

Hi Kirill,

the makedumpfile fix has been applied on Dec 17 2020.
makedumpfile complains about linux kernel version with newer ones but it should still work.

Regards
Alex