netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: sja1105: Don't return a negative in u8 sja1105_stp_state

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Message-Id: <20190508.135808.610382717397984273.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 08 May 2019 13:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     olteanv@...il.com
Cc:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: sja1105: Don't return a negative in u8
 sja1105_stp_state_get

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Date: Wed,  8 May 2019 23:32:25 +0300

> Dan Carpenter says:
> 
> The patch 640f763f98c2: "net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for Spanning
> Tree Protocol" from May 5, 2019, leads to the following static
> checker warning:
> 
>         drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c:1073 sja1105_stp_state_get()
>         warn: signedness bug returning '(-22)'
> 
> The caller doesn't check for negative errors anyway.
> 
> Fixes: 640f763f98c2: ("net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for Spanning Tree Protocol")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>

Applied.