Re: [RESEND] tools-powerpc: Return false instead of -1

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Nov 14 2016 - 07:17:35 EST


On Wed, 2016-09-11 at 08:55:04 UTC, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Returning a negative value for a boolean function seem to have the
> undesired effect of returning true. require_paranoia_below() is a
> boolean function, but the variable used to store the return value is an
> integer, receiving -1 or 0. This patch convert rc to bool, replace -1
> by false, and 0 by true.
>
> This issue was found by the following Coccinelle semantic patch:
> <smpl>
> @@
> identifier f, ret;
> constant C;
> typedef bool;
> @@
> bool f (...){
> <+...
> ret = -C;
> ...
> * return ret;
> ...+>
> }
> </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Shadura <andrew.shadura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/0e27d27e0d6d92342797e0d37738c2

cheers