The value stored to the current 'retval' is number of characters. It is both obtained and put to user as unsigned. So make its type unsigned. And provided it's not a "return value" per se, rename it to 'num'. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c index 71aa898b077a..e917faa0b84c 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c @@ -2498,7 +2498,7 @@ static int n_tty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { struct n_tty_data *ldata = tty->disc_data; - int retval; + unsigned int num; switch (cmd) { case TIOCOUTQ: @@ -2506,11 +2506,11 @@ static int n_tty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int cmd, case TIOCINQ: down_write(&tty->termios_rwsem); if (L_ICANON(tty) && !L_EXTPROC(tty)) - retval = inq_canon(ldata); + num = inq_canon(ldata); else - retval = read_cnt(ldata); + num = read_cnt(ldata); up_write(&tty->termios_rwsem); - return put_user(retval, (unsigned int __user *) arg); + return put_user(num, (unsigned int __user *) arg); default: return n_tty_ioctl_helper(tty, cmd, arg); } -- 2.42.0