Re: [PATCH][next] net: phy: bcm54140: fix less than zero comparison on an unsigned

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Apr 23 2020 - 18:57:12 EST


From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:10:16 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the unsigned variable tmp is being checked for an negative
> error return from the call to bcm_phy_read_rdb and this can never
> be true since tmp is unsigned. Fix this by making tmp a plain int.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Fixes: 4406d36dfdf1 ("net: phy: bcm54140: add hwmon support")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.