linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] FS: Fixing return type of unsigned

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Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 22:09:19 +0200
From:   Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Pushkar Jambhlekar <pushkar.iit@...il.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Sparse <linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FS: Fixing return type of unsigned_offsets

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> FVO"needed" equal to "needed to make sparse STFU"?  If anything, that's
> sparse being wrong - evaluate.c:check_assignment_type() should do
>                 if (t == &ctype_bool) {
>                         if (is_fouled_type(s))
>                                 warning((*rp)->pos, "%s degrades to integer",
>                                         show_typename(s->ctype.base_type));
>                         goto Cast;
>                 }
> right after
>                 } else if (!(sclass & TYPE_RESTRICT))
>                         goto Cast;

What about an explicit cast of restricted types to bool?
I think we would want the equivalent of this patch for those too.

-- Luc