Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:21:06 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: current BK boot failure, d_alloc() |
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On Mon, Mar 24 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > 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?
gcc 3.3 pre-release, I cannot reproduce it in userspace though. I'll try and take a look at the generated code.
-- Jens Axboe
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