Subject: [patch] sctp: dubious bitfields in sctp_transport

From: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 22:20:24 +0200

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 <[email-masked]>
---
It looks like this header is exported to user space.  I don't know if
that makes a difference.

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,