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

[Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Matthieu Baerts wrote:

> 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 have a 'bool' type but we should keep the 'u8' to allow
            ^^^^^^
         "should not" ??

> this comparison.
>
> Fixes: fde56eea01f9 ("mptcp: refine mptcp_cleanup_rbuf")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>

Thanks for catching this Dan!

I'll send to netdev today. Meanwhile, for the mptcp tree:

Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>

> ---
> net/mptcp/protocol.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
> index ddce5b7bbefd..199a36fe4f69 100644
> --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
> +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
> @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static void mptcp_subflow_cleanup_rbuf(struct sock *ssk)
> static bool mptcp_subflow_could_cleanup(const struct sock *ssk, bool rx_empty)
> {
> 	const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(ssk);
> -	bool ack_pending = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_ack.pending);
> +	u8 ack_pending = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_ack.pending);
> 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(ssk);
>
> 	return (ack_pending & ICSK_ACK_SCHED) &&
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>
>
>

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Mat Martineau
Intel