found_key() is declared to return bool but returns NULL when strdup() fails. NULL is a pointer constant; while it happens to convert to zero (i.e. false) it is a type mismatch that trips stricter compilers/static analysers.
Return false to match the declared return type. Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <[email protected]> --- cmd/mbr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/cmd/mbr.c b/cmd/mbr.c index 7fe6c9e103a..b282b68d50e 100644 --- a/cmd/mbr.c +++ b/cmd/mbr.c @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static bool found_key(const char *str, const char *key) strcopy = strdup(str); if (!strcopy) - return NULL; + return false; s = strcopy; while (s) { -- 2.43.0

