The problem is that if "ret" is negative then when we check if "ret > len", that condition is going to be true because of type promotion. So this patch re-orders the code to check for negatives first and preserve those error codes. Fixes: f384b352cbf0 ("mtd: spi-nor: parse Serial Flash Discoverable Parameters (SFDP) tables") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c index 63af87609bac..986b0754495d 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c @@ -2903,10 +2903,10 @@ static int spi_nor_read_raw(struct spi_nor *nor, u32 addr, size_t len, u8 *buf) while (len) { ret = spi_nor_read_data(nor, addr, len, buf); - if (!ret || ret > len) - return -EIO; if (ret < 0) return ret; + if (!ret || ret > len) + return -EIO; buf += ret; addr += ret; -- 2.20.1 ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/