The function has an unsigned return type, but returns a negative constant to indicate an error condition. Another error condition in the same function is indicated by returning 0, and indeed the only call to the function checks for 0 to detect errors, so the return of a negative value it converted to a return of 0. A sematic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @exists@ identifier f; constant C; @@ unsigned f(...) { <+... * return -C; ...+> } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c index ad0e67f..86b55c2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static unsigned int iwl_hw_get_beacon_cmd(struct iwl_priv *priv, if (!priv->beacon_ctx) { IWL_ERR(priv, "trying to build beacon w/o beacon context!\n"); - return -EINVAL; + return 0; } /* Initialize memory */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
