linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] livepatch: match return value to function signature

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 23:46:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
cc:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: match return value to function signature

On Mon, 11 May 2015, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

> klp_initialized() should return bool but is actually returning 
> struct kobject * - convert it to a boolean explicitly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> ---
> 
> static code checking was not happy with
>  ./kernel/livepatch/core.c:131 WARNING: return of wrong type
>                                bool != struct kobject *
> 
> This adds !! to explicitly convert to boolean type.
> 
> Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig
> 
> patch is against 4.1-rc2 (localversion-next is -next-20150508)

Applied to for-4.2/upstream. Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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