On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 09:57 +0530, Pushkar Jambhlekar wrote: > Fixing Sparse warning. It should return bool, instead it returns > int. [] > diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c [] > @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ const struct file_operations generic_ro_fops = { > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_ro_fops); > > -static inline int unsigned_offsets(struct file *file) > +static inline bool unsigned_offsets(struct file *file) > { > - return file->f_mode & FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET; > + return !!(file->f_mode & FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET); trivia: the !! isn't necessary as by definition all non-zero assigns to bool are converted to 1.