From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:31:51 +0000 Subject: [patch] hwmon: saving negative errors in unsigned Message-Id: <20100311103151.GN6321@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org "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 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) {