Commit d6bb3e9075bb (vfs: simplify and shrink stack frame of link_path_walk()) introduced build problems with GCC versions older than 4.6 due to the initialisation of a member of an anonymous union in struct qstr without enclosing braces. This hits GCC bug 10676 [1] (which was fixed in GCC 4.6 by [2]), and causes the following build error: fs/namei.c: In function 'link_path_walk': fs/namei.c:1778: error: unknown field 'hash_len' specified in initializer This is worked around by adding explicit braces. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10676 [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=159206 Fixes: d6bb3e9075bb (vfs: simplify and shrink stack frame of link_path_walk()) Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-metag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- At least for metag it's feasible to fix the compiler, since backporting the fix to GCC 4.2.4 isn't actually very difficult. I don't know about other users of GCC <4.6 though. --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 01d03892316c..a7b05bf82d31 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1775,7 +1775,7 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) struct dentry *parent = nd->path.dentry; nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_JUMPED; if (unlikely(parent->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_HASH)) { - struct qstr this = { .hash_len = hash_len, .name = name }; + struct qstr this = { { .hash_len = hash_len }, .name = name }; err = parent->d_op->d_hash(parent, &this); if (err < 0) break; -- 1.8.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
