From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:41:49 +0000 Subject: [patch] misc/bh1770glc: error handling in Message-Id: <20101028044149.GU6062@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Samu Onkalo Cc: Jonathan Cameron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org There was a signedness bug so "ret" was never less than zero and that breaks the error handling. Also in the original code it would overwrite ret and the result is still negative but it's bogus number instead of the correct error code. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/misc/bh1770glc.c b/drivers/misc/bh1770glc.c index cee632e..d79a972 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/bh1770glc.c +++ b/drivers/misc/bh1770glc.c @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static ssize_t bh1770_power_state_store(struct device *dev, { struct bh1770_chip *chip = dev_get_drvdata(dev); unsigned long value; - size_t ret; + ssize_t ret; if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &value)) return -EINVAL; @@ -659,8 +659,12 @@ static ssize_t bh1770_power_state_store(struct device *dev, pm_runtime_get_sync(dev); ret = bh1770_lux_rate(chip, chip->lux_rate_index); - ret |= bh1770_lux_interrupt_control(chip, BH1770_ENABLE); + if (ret < 0) { + pm_runtime_put(dev); + goto leave; + } + ret = bh1770_lux_interrupt_control(chip, BH1770_ENABLE); if (ret < 0) { pm_runtime_put(dev); goto leave;