From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ting-Han Hou <ue081723@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>,
Kuan-Ying Lee <kuan-ying.lee@canonical.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] scripts/gdb: fix radix tree lookup and stack depot diagnostic
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:58:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261010205859.9ff913500e7a2005d99f9738@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261011023044.1722-1-ue081723@gmail.com>
On Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:30:42 +0800 Ting-Han Hou <ue081723@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew, here are the two scripts/gdb fixes as a series, as requested.
>
> Patch 1 fixes $lx_radix_tree_lookup(), which dereferenced slot contents
> as if they were node pointers. v2 also handles the XArray sibling,
> retry and zero entries that Sashiko pointed out: they carry the
> internal tag but are not node pointers, and the v1 patch raised a GDB
> MemoryError on them. Large folios in the page cache make sibling
> entries common, so this was worth fixing rather than documenting.
>
> Patch 2 is unchanged from v1 apart from being resent with git
> send-email, since the earlier copy was word-wrapped by the mail
> client. Sorry about that.
>
> Both patches are tested against standalone GCC-built fixtures that use
> the kernel struct layouts (details below the --- line of each patch),
> not against a running kernel.
Thanks, I'll queue these for testing while awaiting maintainer review.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-11 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 9:31 [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Fix radix tree lookup pointer handling Ting-Han Hou
2026-10-09 18:10 ` Ting-Han Hou
2026-10-10 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2026-10-11 2:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] scripts/gdb: fix radix tree lookup and stack depot diagnostic Ting-Han Hou
2026-10-11 2:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] scripts/gdb: Fix radix tree lookup pointer handling Ting-Han Hou
2026-10-11 2:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] scripts/gdb: Fix stack depot out-of-bounds diagnostic Ting-Han Hou
2026-10-11 3:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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