Re: [PATCH] usb: misc: remove unnecessary code

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Feb 22 2017 - 00:36:10 EST


Hi Peter,

Quoting Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 05:28:46PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
'val' is an unsigned variable, and less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned
variable is never true.

I would add that val is set by kstrtoul() that converts a string to an
unsigned long.


Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1230257
Reviewed-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c b/drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c
index c7c2104..6f37610 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ static ssize_t u2_timeout_store(struct device *dev,
return ret;
}

- if (val < 0 || val > 127)
+ if (val > 127)
return -EINVAL;

ret = lvs_rh_set_port_feature(hdev, lvs->portnum | (val << 8),
--
2.5.0


Thanks for your comments.
--
Gustavo A. R. Silva