strtoul returns an 'unsigned long' so there is no reason to check if the value is less than zero. strtoul already checks for the '-' character deep in its bowels. It will return an error if the user has provided a negative value and fcoe_str_to_dev_loss will return that error to its caller. This patch fixes the following Coverity reported warning: CID 703581 - NO_EFFECT Unsigned compared against 0 - This less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned value is never true. "*val < 0UL". drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c:105 Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c index 2bc1631..5e75168 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int fcoe_str_to_dev_loss(const char *buf, unsigned long *val) int ret; ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, val); - if (ret || *val < 0) + if (ret) return -EINVAL; /* * Check for overflow; dev_loss_tmo is u32 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html