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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] hwmon: saving negative errors in unsigned
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:31:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100311103151.GN6321@bicker> (raw)

"ret" is used to store the return value for watchdog_trigger() and it
should be signed for the error handling to work.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/w83793.c b/drivers/hwmon/w83793.c
index 9de81a4..612807d 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/w83793.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/w83793.c
@@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ static int watchdog_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
 	size_t count, loff_t *offset)
 {
-	size_t ret;
+	ssize_t ret;
 	struct w83793_data *data = filp->private_data;
 
 	if (count) {

             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-11 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-11 10:31 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-03-11 11:08 ` [patch] hwmon: saving negative errors in unsigned Hans de Goede
2010-03-11 15:28 ` Jean Delvare

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