From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Change post-decrement compare to pre-decrement to avoid an unsigned integer wrap-around on timeout. This leads to the following !timeout check to never to be true so -ETIMEDOUT is never returned. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1452623 ("Logically dead code") Fixes: 69a60b0579a4 ("net: phy: mdio-bcm-unimac: factor busy polling loop") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c index 89425ca48412..73c5267a11fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int unimac_mdio_poll(void *wait_func_data) return 0; usleep_range(1000, 2000); - } while (timeout--); + } while (--timeout); if (!timeout) return -ETIMEDOUT; -- 2.11.0 -- 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