diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.err b/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.err
index 231d552494..e69de29bb2 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.err
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.err
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-reserved-member-u.json: In struct 'Oops':
-reserved-member-u.json:7: 'data' member 'u' uses reserved name
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.json b/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.json
index 1eaf0f301c..15005abb09 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.json
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.json
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@
 # This is true even for non-unions, because it is possible to convert a
 # struct to flat union while remaining backwards compatible in QMP.
 # TODO - we could munge the member name to 'q_u' to avoid the collision
-{ 'struct': 'Oops', 'data': { 'u': 'str' } }
+# BUG: not rejected
+{ 'struct': 'Oops', 'data': { '*u': 'str' } }
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.out b/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.out
index e69de29bb2..6a3705518b 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.out
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/reserved-member-u.out
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+module ./builtin
+object q_empty
+enum QType
+    prefix QTYPE
+    member none
+    member qnull
+    member qnum
+    member qstring
+    member qdict
+    member qlist
+    member qbool
+module reserved-member-u.json
+object Oops
+    member u: str optional=True