diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
index e44a6c01f336..3861a25faae1 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ call.
 User-space tools can get the kernel name, host name, kernel release
 number, kernel version, architecture name and OS type from it.
 
+(uts_namespace, name)
+---------------------
+
+Offset of the name's member. Crash Utility and Makedumpfile get
+the start address of the init_uts_ns.name from this.
+
 node_online_map
 ---------------
 
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 4fcfe0b70c4e..825284baaf46 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
 	VMCOREINFO_PAGESIZE(PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(init_uts_ns);
+	VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(uts_namespace, name);
 	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(node_online_map);
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL_ARRAY(swapper_pg_dir);