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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sherry Yang <sherry.yang@oracle.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, jeyu@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, ast@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org,
	mhiramat@kernel.org, flaniel@linux.microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10.y 0/4] Backport fix commit for kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc test failure
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 12:21:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZwatmQ2V8xxf1dyE@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024100909-neatness-kennel-c24d@gregkh>

On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 03:36:42PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 03:29:44PM -0700, Sherry Yang wrote:
>> 5.10.y backported the commit
>> 09bcf9254838 ("selftests/ftrace: Add new test case which checks non unique symbol")
>> which added a new test case to check non-unique symbol. However, 5.10.y
>> didn't backport the kernel commit
>> b022f0c7e404 ("tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols")to support the functionality from kernel side. Backport it in this patch series.
>>
>> The first two patches are presiquisites. The 4th commit is a fix commit
>> for the 3rd one.
>
>Should we just revert the selftest test instead?  That seems simpler
>instead of adding a new feature to this old and obsolete kernel tree,
>right?

Greg, I read the cover letter the same way and asked myself the same
question, but looking at the patches it's actually a fix for something
that's broken on 5.10 and was just uncovered by the selftest.

I think we should take it.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-09 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-08 22:29 [PATCH 5.10.y 0/4] Backport fix commit for kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc test failure Sherry Yang
2024-10-08 22:29 ` [PATCH 5.10.y 1/4] kallsyms: Make kallsyms_on_each_symbol generally available Sherry Yang
2024-10-08 22:29 ` [PATCH 5.10.y 2/4] kallsyms: Make module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol " Sherry Yang
2024-10-08 22:29 ` [PATCH 5.10.y 3/4] tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols Sherry Yang
2024-10-08 22:29 ` [PATCH 5.10.y 4/4] tracing/kprobes: Fix symbol counting logic by looking at modules as well Sherry Yang
2024-10-09 13:36 ` [PATCH 5.10.y 0/4] Backport fix commit for kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc test failure Greg KH
2024-10-09 14:44   ` Steven Rostedt
2024-10-09 16:21   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2024-10-10 16:11   ` Sherry Yang
2024-10-11 11:30     ` Francis Laniel
2024-10-11 12:13       ` Sasha Levin

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