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cw1200: Fix a signedness bug in cw1200_load_firmware()

Message ID 20190925105943.GJ3264@mwanda (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Series cw1200: Fix a signedness bug in cw1200_load_firmware() | expand

Commit Message

Dan Carpenter Sept. 25, 2019, 10:59 a.m. UTC
The "priv->hw_type" is an enum and in this context GCC will treat it
as an unsigned int so the error handling will never trigger.

Fixes: a910e4a94f69 ("cw1200: add driver for the ST-E CW1100 & CW1200 WLAN chipsets")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kalle Valo Sept. 25, 2019, 11:06 a.m. UTC | #1
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> writes:

> The "priv->hw_type" is an enum and in this context GCC will treat it
> as an unsigned int so the error handling will never trigger.
>
> Fixes: a910e4a94f69 ("cw1200: add driver for the ST-E CW1100 & CW1200 WLAN chipsets")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c
> index 6574e78e05ea..da767c33dfbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ int cw1200_load_firmware(struct cw1200_common *priv)
>  	}
>  
>  	priv->hw_type = cw1200_get_hw_type(val32, &major_revision);
> -	if (priv->hw_type < 0) {
> +	if ((int)priv->hw_type < 0) {
>  		pr_err("Can't deduce hardware type.\n");
>  		ret = -ENOTSUPP;
>  		goto out;

Isn't there any cleaner way to fix this? Like having 'int ret' variable
and assign to priv->hw_type after the error handling?
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c
index 6574e78e05ea..da767c33dfbb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/fwio.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@  int cw1200_load_firmware(struct cw1200_common *priv)
 	}
 
 	priv->hw_type = cw1200_get_hw_type(val32, &major_revision);
-	if (priv->hw_type < 0) {
+	if ((int)priv->hw_type < 0) {
 		pr_err("Can't deduce hardware type.\n");
 		ret = -ENOTSUPP;
 		goto out;