From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently the check for *lenp < 0 is always true since the type is a size_t and can never be negative. Fix this by casting it to ssize_t. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0") Fixes: c09f56b8f68d ("net/sunrpc: Fix return value for sysctl sunrpc.transports") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c index a18b36b5422d..bb62badef6bc 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(struct ctl_table *table, int write, len = svc_print_xprts(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)); *lenp = memory_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos, tmpbuf, len); - if (*lenp < 0) { + if ((ssize_t)*lenp < 0) { *lenp = 0; return -EINVAL; } -- 2.27.0