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Stephen Brennan
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In prior kernel versions (5.8-6.8), commit9f6c61f96f("proc/mounts: add cursor") introduced MNT_CURSOR, a flag used by readers from /proc/mounts to keep their place while reading the file. Later, commit2eea9ce431("mounts: keep list of mounts in an rbtree") removed this flag and its value has since been repurposed. For debuggers iterating over the list of mounts, cursors should be skipped as they are irrelevant. Detecting whether an element is a cursor can be difficult. Since the MNT_CURSOR flag is a preprocessor constant, it's not present in debuginfo, and since its value is repurposed, we cannot hard-code it. For this specific issue, cursors are possible to detect in other ways, but ideally, we would be able to read the mount flag definitions out of the debuginfo. For that reason, convert the mount flags to an enum. Link: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/pull/496 Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507223402.2795029-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.