Re: [PATCH 4.19 42/86] scripts/gdb: fix lx-symbols gdb.error while loading modules

Kieran Bingham
2020-07-27T14:40:28Z

Hi Stefano,

On 27/07/2020 15:37, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 03:26:42PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>> Hi Greg, Sasha,
>>
>> On 27/07/2020 15:04, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> [ Upstream commit 7359608a271ce81803de148befefd309baf88c76 ]
>>>
>>> Commit ed66f991bb19 ("module: Refactor section attr into bin attribute")
>>> removed the 'name' field from 'struct module_sect_attr' triggering the
>>> following error when invoking lx-symbols:
>>
>>
>> Has ed66f991bb19 ("module: Refactor section attr into bin attribute")
>> been backported to 4.19? It doesn't /sound/ like something that would
>> require backporting unless something else depended up on it, but if it
>> hasn't been ... then *this* patch shouldn't be either...
>>
>> Same for 5.4, and 5.7 that's just come in.
>>
>> This patch will 'apply' cleanly, and not hit any compilation errors, as
>> it only changes python code... so my reason to highlight is in case some
>> automated system picked it up based on those assumptions.
>>
>> If ed66f991bb19 has also been backported, then I'm sorry for the noise ;-)
>>
>
> I had the same doubt, but I just saw that ed66f991bb19 was backported to
> the stable branches (4.19, 5.4 and 5.7), so I think this backport is> correct.

Perfect, thanks for confirming.

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Kieran