Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:38:34 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix cocci warnings | From | Paolo Bonzini <> |
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On 11/15/21 21:49, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 06:06:08PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 11/15/21 12:43, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 10:13:12PM +0530, Vihas Mak wrote: >>>> change 0 to false and 1 to true to fix following cocci warnings: >>>> >>>> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:1485:9-10: WARNING: return of 0/1 in function 'kvm_set_pte_rmapp' with return type bool >>>> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:1636:10-11: WARNING: return of 0/1 in function 'kvm_test_age_rmapp' with return type bool >>> >>> That script should be deleted, it's absolute garbage. >> >> Only a Sith deals in absolutes. > > Is that a star-wars thingy?
Yes, it is. "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy!" "Only a Sith deals in absolutes". :)
> In C 0 is a valid way to spell false, equally, any non-0 value is a > valid way to spell true. Why would this rate a warn?
Because often 0 means success (if -errno means failure). So if you write false/true consistently for bool and 0 only for int, it's one less thing that one can get wrong. At least that's the rationale.
Paolo
> In fact, when casting _Bool to integer, you get 0 and 1. When looking at > the memory content of the _Bool variable, you'll get 0 and 1. But we're > not allowed to write 0 and 1? >
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