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[patch] extcon: signedness bugs break error handling

From Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [patch] extcon: signedness bugs break error handling
Date 2015-08-04 09:50 +0200
Message-ID <pTF8Z-41P-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Unsigned is never less than zero so this error handling won't work.

Fixes: be052cc87745 ('extcon: Fix hang and extcon_get/set_cable_state().')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
index 8301a72..da2fb6c 100644
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static int find_cable_id_by_name(struct extcon_dev *edev, const char *name)
 
 static int find_cable_index_by_name(struct extcon_dev *edev, const char *name)
 {
-	unsigned int id;
+	int id;
 
 	if (edev->max_supported == 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(extcon_get_cable_state_);
  */
 int extcon_get_cable_state(struct extcon_dev *edev, const char *cable_name)
 {
-	unsigned int id;
+	int id;
 
 	id = find_cable_id_by_name(edev, cable_name);
 	if (id < 0)
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(extcon_set_cable_state_);
 int extcon_set_cable_state(struct extcon_dev *edev,
 			const char *cable_name, bool cable_state)
 {
-	unsigned int id;
+	int id;
 
 	id = find_cable_id_by_name(edev, cable_name);
 	if (id < 0)
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[patch] extcon: signedness bugs break error handling Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-08-04 09:50 +0200
  Re: [patch] extcon: signedness bugs break error handling Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> - 2015-08-04 10:50 +0200
  Re: [patch] extcon: signedness bugs break error handling Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> - 2015-08-04 13:00 +0200

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