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Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 19:39:20 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net: phy: dp83869: fix unsigned comparisons
 against less than zero values

On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 12:26:49PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Colin
> 
> On 10/2/20 11:54 AM, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> > 
> > Currently the comparisons of u16 integers value and sopass_val with
> > less than zero for error checking is always false because the values
> > are unsigned. Fix this by making these variables int.  This does not
> > affect the shift and mask operations performed on these variables
> > 
> > Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against zero")
> > Fixes: 49fc23018ec6 ("net: phy: dp83869: support Wake on LAN")
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c b/drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c
> > index 0aee5f645b71..cf6dec7b7d8e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c
> > @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static int dp83869_set_wol(struct phy_device *phydev,
> >   static void dp83869_get_wol(struct phy_device *phydev,
> >   			    struct ethtool_wolinfo *wol)
> >   {
> > -	u16 value, sopass_val;
> > +	int value, sopass_val;
> >   	wol->supported = (WAKE_UCAST | WAKE_BCAST | WAKE_MAGIC |
> >   			WAKE_MAGICSECURE);
> 
> Wonder why this was not reported before as the previous comparison issue
> reported by zero day.

I think it needs W=1

  Andrew

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