Re: [patch] iio: cros_ec_sensors_core: signedness bug in cros_ec_sensors_read_lpc()

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Dan,

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Dan Carpenter
<dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "status" is a u8 so checking for negatives doesn't work.  We can just
> use "ret" here instead.
>
> Fixes: 974e6f02e27e ("iio: cros_ec_sensors_core: Add common functions for the ChromeOS EC Sensor Hub.")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Also fixed with https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/9/807

Guenter

> diff --git a/drivers/iio/common/cros_ec_sensors/cros_ec_sensors_core.c b/drivers/iio/common/cros_ec_sensors/cros_ec_sensors_core.c
> index a3be799..416cae5 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/common/cros_ec_sensors/cros_ec_sensors_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/common/cros_ec_sensors/cros_ec_sensors_core.c
> @@ -291,15 +291,15 @@ int cros_ec_sensors_read_lpc(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
>                         return -EIO;
>
>                 /* Read status byte until EC is not busy. */
> -               status = cros_ec_sensors_read_until_not_busy(st);
> -               if (status < 0)
> -                       return status;
> +               ret = cros_ec_sensors_read_until_not_busy(st);
> +               if (ret < 0)
> +                       return ret;
>
>                 /*
>                  * Store the current sample id so that we can compare to the
>                  * sample id after reading the data.
>                  */
> -               samp_id = status & EC_MEMMAP_ACC_STATUS_SAMPLE_ID_MASK;
> +               samp_id = ret & EC_MEMMAP_ACC_STATUS_SAMPLE_ID_MASK;
>
>                 /* Read all EC data, format it, and store it into data. */
>                 ret = cros_ec_sensors_read_data_unsafe(indio_dev, scan_mask,