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

[HATAYAMA Daisuke]

From: Per Fransson <per.fransson.ml at gmail.com>
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 at suse.cz>
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 at suse.cz>
    Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima at jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

The patch appears fine to me so I'll apply it.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke