Re: [PATCH][next] USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix less than zero comparison of an unsigned int

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat May 16 2020 - 02:31:00 EST


On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 01:21:21PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 05:54:53PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The comparison of hcd->irq to less than zero for an error check will
> > never be true because hcd->irq is an unsigned int. Fix this by
> > assigning the int retval to the return of platform_get_irq and checking
> > this for the -ve error condition and assigning hcd->irq to retval.
> >
> > Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> > Fixes: c856b4b0fdb5 ("USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix error handling in mv_ehci_probe()")
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Thanks to Coverity for spotting this. Any reason why it didn't spot
> exactly the same mistake in the ohci-da8xx.c driver?

I think Coverity only runs on a limited kernel configuration and does
not build everything :(