linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: exthdrs: fix warning comparison to bool

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Message-Id: <20190609.195420.1742255944804133266.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hariprasad.kelam@...il.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: exthdrs: fix warning comparison to bool

From: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 14:05:33 +0530

> Fix below warning reported by coccicheck
> 
> net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:180:9-29: WARNING: Comparison to bool
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
 ...
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
> index ab5add0..e137325 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static bool ip6_parse_tlv(const struct tlvtype_proc *procs,
>  					/* type specific length/alignment
>  					   checks will be performed in the
>  					   func(). */
> -					if (curr->func(skb, off) == false)
> +					if (!curr->func(skb, off))

curr->func() returns type 'bool', whats wrong with comparing against the
same type?

I'm not applying stuff like this, sorry.