Re: [BUILD FAILURE] nfs4state.c fails to compile with gcc 4.5.4

[Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>]

On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 23:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:44:33 -0800
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> I keep older compilers around to test ftrace before -mfentry was
> introduced.
> 
> I wonder if I should just add a config to force the use without
> -mfentry even if the compiler supports it.
> 
> >  fs/nfs/nfs4state.c   | 3 +--
> >  include/linux/nfs4.h | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> > index 54fd56d715a8..9db5d0d57fcb 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> > @@ -71,8 +71,7 @@ const nfs4_stateid zero_stateid = {
> >  };
> >  const nfs4_stateid invalid_stateid = {
> >  	{
> > -		.seqid = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffffU),
> > -		.other = { 0 },
> > +		{ .seqid = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffffU), .other = { 0
> > }, },
> 
> I tried this and it failed.
> 
> >  	},
> >  	.type = NFS4_INVALID_STATEID_TYPE,
> >  };
> > diff --git a/include/linux/nfs4.h b/include/linux/nfs4.h
> > index 47adac640191..e394ba0cd6c5 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/nfs4.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/nfs4.h
> > @@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ typedef struct { char data[NFS4_VERIFIER_SIZE];
> > } nfs4_verifier;
> >  
> >  struct nfs4_stateid_struct {
> >  	union {
> > -		char data[NFS4_STATEID_SIZE];
> >  		struct {
> >  			__be32 seqid;
> >  			char other[NFS4_STATEID_OTHER_SIZE];
> >  		} __attribute__ ((packed));
> > +		char data[NFS4_STATEID_SIZE];
> 
> But I didn't try this. This looks to be the key.
> 
> This works for me.
> 
> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> >  	};
> >  
> >  	enum {
> 
> 

We already have a fix queued up for this issue. It was reported and the
patch hit linux-nfs+linux-kernel almost 2 weeks ago. Anna?

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData
trond.myklebust@primarydata.com