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Message-ID: <20190529023619.GA12875@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 28 May 2019 19:36:22 -0700
From:   Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: tsens: Remove unnecessary comparison of
 unsigned integer with < 0

Gustavo,

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 11:08:25AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> There is no need to compare hw_id with < 0 because such comparison
> of an unsigned value is always false.
> 
> Fix this by removing such comparison.


Thanks for fixing this. But we had to revert the commit that introduces
this issue. So this patch is no longer applicable.

> 
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1445440 ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Fixes: 3e6a8fb33084 ("drivers: thermal: tsens: Add new operation to check if a sensor is enabled")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c b/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c
> index 928e8e81ba69..94878ad35464 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ bool is_sensor_enabled(struct tsens_priv *priv, u32 hw_id)
>  	u32 val;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	if ((hw_id > (priv->num_sensors - 1)) || (hw_id < 0))
> +	if (hw_id > priv->num_sensors - 1)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	ret = regmap_field_read(priv->rf[SENSOR_EN], &val);
>  	if (ret)