Re: [patch 2/2] backlight: lm3630: potential NULL deref in probe()

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On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:55 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> "rval" needs to be signed for the error handling to work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

CC'ed Andrew Morton, Daniel Jeong,

Oh, you're right.
"rval" is used as below.
rval = lm3630a_read(pchip, REG_INT_STATUS);
Also, lm3630a_read() returns signed value; thus,
"rval" should be signed.
Thank you for sending the patch. :-)

Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c
> index c63f918..65392f9 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c
> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int lm3630a_chip_init(struct lm3630a_chip *pchip)
>  /* interrupt handling */
>  static void lm3630a_delayed_func(struct work_struct *work)
>  {
> -	unsigned int rval;
> +	int rval;
>  	struct lm3630a_chip *pchip;
> 
>  	pchip = container_of(work, struct lm3630a_chip, work.work);


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