There is a static checker warning here because "val" is controlled by the user and we have a upper bound on it but allow negative numbers. "val" appears to be a timeout in usec so this bug probably means we have a longer timeout than we should. Let's fix this by changing "val" to unsigned. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Checkpatch has several complaints about this code but I left it as-is. diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c index 90fdf0e..675e7fa 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ mvs_store_interrupt_coalescing(struct device *cdev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buffer, size_t size) { - int val = 0; + unsigned int val = 0; struct mvs_info *mvi = NULL; struct Scsi_Host *shost = class_to_shost(cdev); struct sas_ha_struct *sha = SHOST_TO_SAS_HA(shost); @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ mvs_store_interrupt_coalescing(struct device *cdev, if (buffer == NULL) return size; - if (sscanf(buffer, "%d", &val) != 1) + if (sscanf(buffer, "%u", &val) != 1) return -EINVAL; if (val >= 0x10000) { -- 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