linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] gpio: xgene: fix type of variable containing error codes

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Message-id: <1456209934-13439-1-git-send-email-a.hajda@samsung.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:45:34 +0100
From:	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org (open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM)
Cc:	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: xgene: fix type of variable containing error codes

ret variable can contain error values and is compared with zero.
Its type must be signed.

The problem has been detected using coccinelle script
scripts/coccinelle/tests/unsigned_lesser_than_zero.cocci

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-xgene-sb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgene-sb.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgene-sb.c
index b993b86..fd81ebc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgene-sb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgene-sb.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static const struct irq_domain_ops xgene_gpio_sb_domain_ops = {
 static int xgene_gpio_sb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct xgene_gpio_sb *priv;
-	u32 ret;
+	int ret;
 	struct resource *res;
 	void __iomem *regs;
 	struct irq_domain *parent_domain = NULL;
-- 
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