'size' is unsigned, it never less than zero. Fixes: 6c26df84e1f2 ("selftests: cgroup: return -errno from cg_read()/cg_write() on failure") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c index 4c52cc6f2f9c..e8bbbdb77e0d 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c @@ -555,6 +555,7 @@ int proc_mount_contains(const char *option) ssize_t proc_read_text(int pid, bool thread, const char *item, char *buf, size_t size) { char path[PATH_MAX]; + ssize_t ret; if (!pid) snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/%s/%s", @@ -562,8 +563,8 @@ ssize_t proc_read_text(int pid, bool thread, const char *item, char *buf, size_t else snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/%d/%s", pid, item); - size = read_text(path, buf, size); - return size < 0 ? -1 : size; + ret = read_text(path, buf, size); + return ret < 0 ? -1 : ret; } int proc_read_strstr(int pid, bool thread, const char *item, const char *needle) -- 2.17.1