Re: net: vrf: Handle ipv6 multicast and link-local addresses

On 8/3/16 1:57 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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+static void vrf_ip6_input_dst(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *vrf_dev,

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+                             int ifindex)
+{
+       const struct ipv6hdr *iph = ipv6_hdr(skb);
+       struct flowi6 fl6 = {
+               .daddr          = iph->daddr,
+               .saddr          = iph->saddr,
+               .flowlabel      = ip6_flowinfo(iph),

The above assignment causes the following compiler warning with
m68k-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1:

    drivers/net/vrf.c: In function ‘vrf_ip6_input_dst’:
    drivers/net/vrf.c:870: warning: initialized field with
side-effects overwritten
    drivers/net/vrf.c:870: warning: (near initialization for ‘fl6’)

Unfortunately I have no idea what it means, nor do I see what's wrong
with the code.

no idea. Fields are initialized once and left and right data types are the same.

Can you remove one line at a time? Line 870 is ".flowi6_proto   = iph->nexthdr," but all of the flowi6 macros are unique references to unique fields in flowi_common. The flowlabel line you point out is a unique field as well.

Can you run pahole on file that did compile? e.g.,

pahole -C 'flowi6' net/ipv6/route.o

and get the common struct too:

pahole -C 'flowi_common' net/ipv6/route.o

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+               .flowi6_mark    = skb->mark,
+               .flowi6_proto   = iph->nexthdr,
+               .flowi6_iif     = ifindex,
+       };