[patch] ds2782_battery: signedness bug in ds278x_read_reg16()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Oct 24 2012 - 03:53:12 EST


We need to check for negative values before doing the swab16() for the
error handling to work.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c b/drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
index 6bb6e2f..2fa9b6b 100644
--- a/drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
+++ b/drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ static inline int ds278x_read_reg16(struct ds278x_info *info, int reg_msb,
{
int ret;

- ret = swab16(i2c_smbus_read_word_data(info->client, reg_msb));
+ ret = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(info->client, reg_msb);
if (ret < 0) {
dev_err(&info->client->dev, "register read failed\n");
return ret;
}

- *val = ret;
+ *val = swab16(ret);
return 0;
}

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