With -Wsign-compare, compilers warn about a mismatching signedness in comparisons in fdt_get_string(). Introduce a new usigned variable, which holds the actual (negated) stroffset value, so we avoid negating all the other variables and have proper types everywhere. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> --- libfdt/fdt_ro.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/libfdt/fdt_ro.c b/libfdt/fdt_ro.c index e192184..91cc6fe 100644 --- a/libfdt/fdt_ro.c +++ b/libfdt/fdt_ro.c @@ -67,11 +67,13 @@ const char *fdt_get_string(const void *fdt, int stroffset, int *lenp) len = fdt_size_dt_strings(fdt) - stroffset; } } else if (fdt_magic(fdt) == FDT_SW_MAGIC) { - if ((stroffset >= 0) - || (stroffset < -fdt_size_dt_strings(fdt))) + unsigned int sw_stroffset = -stroffset; + + if ((stroffset >= 0) || + (sw_stroffset > fdt_size_dt_strings(fdt))) goto fail; - if ((-stroffset) < len) - len = -stroffset; + if (sw_stroffset < len) + len = sw_stroffset; } else { err = -FDT_ERR_INTERNAL; goto fail; -- 2.17.5