Re: current BK boot failure, d_alloc()

Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-24T16:58:34Z

> On Mon, Mar 24 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
[snip]
>> craps out in memcpy() due to name->name == NULL
>
> smells like a compiler problem, with the following patch:
>
> ===== fs/dcache.c 1.43 vs edited =====
> --- 1.43/fs/dcache.c Sat Mar 22 05:05:21 2003
> +++ edited/fs/dcache.c Mon Mar 24 12:58:19 2003
> @@ -784,7 +784,8 @@
> struct dentry *res = NULL;
>
> if (root_inode) {
> - res = d_alloc(NULL, &(const struct qstr) { "/", 1, 0 });
> + struct qstr name = { .name = "/", .len = 1, .hash = 0 };
> + res = d_alloc(NULL, &name);
> if (res) {
> res->d_sb = root_inode->i_sb;
> res->d_parent = res;
>
> --

what compiler, please?

~Randy