[patch 1/1] net/ipv6/route.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 anon union initializer issue

[patch 1/1] net/ipv6/route.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 anon union initializer issue

[akpm]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: net/ipv6/route.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 anon union initializer issue

gcc-4.4.4 has problems with initializers of anonymous union fields.

net/ipv6/route.c: In function 'rt6_sync_up':
net/ipv6/route.c:3586: error: unknown field 'nh_flags' specified in initializer
net/ipv6/route.c:3586: warning: missing braces around initializer
net/ipv6/route.c:3586: warning: (near initialization for 'arg.<anonymous>')
net/ipv6/route.c: In function 'rt6_sync_down_dev':
net/ipv6/route.c:3695: error: unknown field 'event' specified in initializer
net/ipv6/route.c:3695: warning: missing braces around initializer
net/ipv6/route.c:3695: warning: (near initialization for 'arg.<anonymous>')

Fixes: 2127d95aef6c ("ipv6: Clear nexthop flags upon netdev up")
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 net/ipv6/route.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN net/ipv6/route.c~net-ipv6-routec-work-around-gcc-444-anon-union-initializer-issue net/ipv6/route.c
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c~net-ipv6-routec-work-around-gcc-444-anon-union-initializer-issue
+++ a/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -3583,7 +3583,7 @@ void rt6_sync_up(struct net_device *dev,
 {
 	struct arg_netdev_event arg = {
 		.dev = dev,
-		.nh_flags = nh_flags,
+		{ .nh_flags = nh_flags, },
 	};
 
 	if (nh_flags & RTNH_F_DEAD && netif_carrier_ok(dev))
@@ -3692,7 +3692,7 @@ void rt6_sync_down_dev(struct net_device
 {
 	struct arg_netdev_event arg = {
 		.dev = dev,
-		.event = event,
+		{ .event = event, },
 	};
 
 	fib6_clean_all(dev_net(dev), fib6_ifdown, &arg);
_

Re: [patch 1/1] net/ipv6/route.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 anon union initializer issue

[David Miller]

From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:18:27 -0800

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Subject: net/ipv6/route.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 anon union initializer issue
> 
> gcc-4.4.4 has problems with initializers of anonymous union fields.
> 
> net/ipv6/route.c: In function 'rt6_sync_up':
> net/ipv6/route.c:3586: error: unknown field 'nh_flags' specified in initializer
> net/ipv6/route.c:3586: warning: missing braces around initializer
> net/ipv6/route.c:3586: warning: (near initialization for 'arg.<anonymous>')
> net/ipv6/route.c: In function 'rt6_sync_down_dev':
> net/ipv6/route.c:3695: error: unknown field 'event' specified in initializer
> net/ipv6/route.c:3695: warning: missing braces around initializer
> net/ipv6/route.c:3695: warning: (near initialization for 'arg.<anonymous>')
> 
> Fixes: 2127d95aef6c ("ipv6: Clear nexthop flags upon netdev up")
> Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Ido sent me a patch which fixes this and it's in my net-next tree now.

Thank you.