Re: [PATCH] iio: light: gp2ap020a00f: Fix signedness bug in gp2ap020a00f_get_thresh_reg()

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Sat Dec 27 2025 - 10:01:04 EST


On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 06:45:21PM +0300, Alper Ak wrote:
> gp2ap020a00f_get_thresh_reg() returns -EINVAL on error,
> but it was declared as a u8.
>
> Change the return type to int and update callers to use int type for
> the return value and properly check for negative error codes.

...

> thresh_reg_l = gp2ap020a00f_get_thresh_reg(chan, dir);

> +

This blank line is redundant.

> + if (thresh_reg_l < 0) {
> + err = thresh_reg_l;
> + goto error_unlock;
> + }

And entire code can be rewritten in a shorter way
(in this case the type not needed to be changed):

err = gp2ap020a00f_get_thresh_reg(chan, dir);
if (err < 0)
goto error_unlock;
thresh_reg_l = err;

but this one is up to maintainers as I know Jonathan likes the clear naming
to be assigned to (however when written as above it clear to me what's the
semantics of the non-negative returns).

...

Ditto for the other function.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko