Re: [PATCH][next] USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix less than zero comparison of an unsigned int

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On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 05:54:53PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The comparison of hcd->irq to less than zero for an error check will
> never be true because hcd->irq is an unsigned int.  Fix this by
> assigning the int retval to the return of platform_get_irq and checking
> this for the -ve error condition and assigning hcd->irq to retval.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Fixes: c856b4b0fdb5 ("USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix error handling in mv_ehci_probe()")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks to Coverity for spotting this.  Any reason why it didn't spot 
exactly the same mistake in the ohci-da8xx.c driver?

Also, why wasn't the patch CC'ed for the stable series?

Alan Stern



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