The "ring" variable has an upper bounds check but nothing checks for negatives. This code uses kstrtouint() already and it was obviously intended to be declared as unsigned int. Make it so. Fixes: dbc8876dd873 ("crypto: qat - add rp2svc sysfs attribute") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_sysfs.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_sysfs.c b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_sysfs.c index ddffc98119c6..6f0b3629da13 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_sysfs.c @@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ static ssize_t rp2srv_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { struct adf_accel_dev *accel_dev; - int ring, num_rings, ret; + int num_rings, ret; + unsigned int ring; accel_dev = adf_devmgr_pci_to_accel_dev(to_pci_dev(dev)); if (!accel_dev) -- 2.42.0