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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] sctp: dubious bitfields in sctp_transport
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 16:12:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFADDA3.2090307@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100522202024.GL22515@bicker>



Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Sparse complains because these one-bit bitfields are signed.
>   include/net/sctp/structs.h:879:24: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
>   include/net/sctp/structs.h:889:31: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
>   include/net/sctp/structs.h:895:26: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
>   include/net/sctp/structs.h:898:31: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
>   include/net/sctp/structs.h:901:27: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
> 
> It doesn't cause a problem in the current code, but it would be better
> to clean it up.  This was introduced by c0058a35aacc7: "sctp: Save some
> room in the sctp_transport by using bitfields".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> ---
> It looks like this header is exported to user space.  I don't know if
> that makes a difference.

That shouldn't make a difference.

-vlad

> 
> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> index 6173c61..4b86011 100644
> --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
> @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ struct sctp_transport {
>  
>  	/* Reference counting. */
>  	atomic_t refcnt;
> -	int	 dead:1,
> +	__u32	 dead:1,
>  		/* RTO-Pending : A flag used to track if one of the DATA
>  		 *		chunks sent to this address is currently being
>  		 *		used to compute a RTT. If this flag is 0,
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-24 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-22 20:20 [patch] sctp: dubious bitfields in sctp_transport Dan Carpenter
2010-05-24 20:12 ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2010-05-26  7:40 ` David Miller

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