Hi,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 4:03 AM Aaron Tomlin <atom...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Post 'make scripts_gdb' a symbolic link to scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
> is created. Currently 'os.path.dirname(__file__)' does not generate
> the absolute path to scripts/gdb resulting in the following:
>
>     (gdb) source vmlinux-gdb.py
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py", line 25, in <module>
>         import linux.utils
>     ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'linux'
>
> This patch ensures that the absolute path to scripts/gdb in relation to
> the given file is generated so each module can be located accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atom...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
> index 4136dc2c59df..3e8d3669f0ce 100644
> --- a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
> +++ b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>
>  import os
>
> -sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/scripts/gdb")
> +sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + 
> "/scripts/gdb")

It seems to generate an absolute path for me, but some quick web
searches show that it's not guaranteed so I guess you must be hitting
whatever corner cases it ends up being relative.

The fix seems reasonable to me, thus:

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>


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