Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: Force inlining of build check to prevent build failure

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 03 2017 - 09:55:39 EST


From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 14:18:43 +0200

> If gcc (e.g. 4.1.2) decides not to inline total_extension_size(), the
> build will fail with:
>
> net/built-in.o: In function `nf_conntrack_init_start':
> (.text+0x9baf6): undefined reference to `__compiletime_assert_1893'
>
> or
>
> ERROR: "__compiletime_assert_1893" [net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.ko] undefined!
>
> Fix this by forcing inlining of total_extension_size().
>
> Fixes: b3a5db109e0670d6 ("netfilter: conntrack: use u8 for extension sizes again")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Pablo, I'm going to apply this directly to my tree to fix this build
failure, I hope you don't mind.

Thanks.