From: Per Fransson <per.fransson.ml@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [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@xxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
The patch appears fine to me so I'll apply it.
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke
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