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 <error27@xxxxxxxxx> 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; -- 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