We intended to test for failure here but accidentally tested for success. It means that we don't set "*val" to true and it means that if i2c_smbus_write_byte() does fail then we return success. Fixes: e7895864b0d7 ("hwmon: (max6621) Add support for Maxim MAX6621 temperature sensor") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/max6621.c b/drivers/hwmon/max6621.c index 22079ec29660..35555f0eefb9 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/max6621.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/max6621.c @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ max6621_read(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32 attr, if (regval) { ret = i2c_smbus_write_byte(data->client, MAX6621_CLEAR_ALERT_REG); - if (!ret) + if (ret) return ret; } -- 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