netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mptcp: fix 'masking a bool' warning

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:22:50 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, mptcp@...ts.linux.dev,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mptcp: fix 'masking a bool' warning

On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 14:25 -0700, Mat Martineau wrote:
> From: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
> 
> Dan Carpenter reported an issue introduced in
> commit fde56eea01f9 ("mptcp: refine mptcp_cleanup_rbuf") where a new
> boolean (ack_pending) is masked with 0x9.
> 
> This is not the intention to ignore values by using a boolean. This
> variable should not have a 'bool' type: we should keep the 'u8' to allow
> this comparison.
> 
> Fixes: fde56eea01f9 ("mptcp: refine mptcp_cleanup_rbuf")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>