diff --git a/api/krusty/nameprefixsuffixpatch_test.go b/api/krusty/nameprefixsuffixpatch_test.go
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+++ b/api/krusty/nameprefixsuffixpatch_test.go
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+// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+// I expected configMapRef.name and configMapKeyRef.name to be "mysql-g9ttm44c48" not "mysql"
+
+package krusty_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	kusttest_test "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/testutils/kusttest"
+)
+
+func TestNamePrefixSuffixPatch(t *testing.T) {
+	th := kusttest_test.MakeEnhancedHarness(t).
+		PrepBuiltin("PrefixSuffixTransformer").
+		PrepBuiltin("AnnotationsTransformer").
+		PrepBuiltin("LabelTransformer")
+	defer th.Reset()
+
+	th.WriteF("/app/handlers/kustomization.yaml", `
+nameSuffix: -suffix
+
+resources:
+  - ./deployment.yaml
+`)
+
+	th.WriteF("/app/handlers/deployment.yaml", `
+apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: short
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: handler
+`)
+
+	th.WriteF("/app/mysql/kustomization.yaml", `
+configMapGenerator:
+  - name: mysql
+    literals:
+      - MYSQL_USER=mysql
+      - MYSQL_DATABASE=default
+`)
+
+	th.WriteK("/app", `
+resources:
+  - ./mysql
+  - ./handlers
+
+configMapGenerator:
+  - name: mysql
+    behavior: merge
+    literals:
+      - MYSQL_DATABASE=db
+      - MYSQL_USER=user
+
+patches:
+  - target:
+      kind: Deployment
+      name: s.*
+    patch: |-
+      kind: Deployment
+      metadata:
+        name: ignored
+      spec:
+        template:
+          spec:
+            containers:
+              - name: handler
+                envFrom:
+                  - configMapRef:
+                      name: mysql
+                env:
+                  - valueFrom:
+                      configMapKeyRef:
+                        name: mysql
+                        key: MYSQL_DATABASE
+`)
+
+	m := th.Run("/app", th.MakeDefaultOptions())
+	// I expected configMapRef.name and configMapKeyRef.name to be "mysql-g9ttm44c48" not "mysql"
+	th.AssertActualEqualsExpected(m, `
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  MYSQL_DATABASE: db
+  MYSQL_USER: user
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  annotations: {}
+  labels: {}
+  name: mysql-g9ttm44c48
+---
+apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: short-suffix
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - env:
+        - valueFrom:
+            configMapKeyRef:
+              key: MYSQL_DATABASE
+              name: mysql
+        envFrom:
+        - configMapRef:
+            name: mysql
+        name: handler
+`)
+}