Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH]: gcore extension, anonymous union in inode struct

From: Per Fransson <per.fransson.ml(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH]: gcore extension, anonymous union in inode struct Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:29:43 +0200 > Hi Crash people, > > The gcore extension fails on the 3.4 kernel I'm using. It attempts to > find the offset of a member within the inode struct, but the member is > part of an anonymous union. This patch fixes the problem for me. > > Regards, > Per Hello Per, Thanks for reporting that. According to git repository, this was changed by the following commit at the v3.1 period. $ git describe a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb v3.1-8569-ga78ef70 $ git log -1 a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb commit a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz&gt; Date: Fri Oct 28 14:13:30 2011 +0200 vfs: protect i_nlink Prevent direct modification of i_nlink by making it const and adding a non-const __i_nlink alias. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz&gt; Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima(a)jp.fujitsu.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)lst.de&gt; The patch appears fine to me so I'll apply it. Thanks. HATAYAMA, Daisuke