Re: [PATCH] cifs: avoid mixing bool and le16

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:52:18PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:3917:13: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:3917:13:    expected bool [unsigned] [usertype] is_unicode
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:3917:13:    got restricted __le16
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>

It's a sparse bug - the thing doesn't treat conversions to bool right.

FWIW, if you want an obviously broken case, consider

char a[2 * (bool)2 - 1];

It *should* turn into

char a[1];

What happens instead is that bool is treated as 1-bit unsigned integer
type, resulting in char a[-1].

So we need to fix that crap; the real rules are simple - conversion of
any arithmetic or pointer type to _Bool behaves as if we had v != 0;
same as for if/while/do/for conditions.