At the end of qtd_fill(), we assign the 'int count' variable to the 'size_t length' field of 'struct ehci_qtd'. In order not to mix the *signed* and *unsigned* values let's make that variable and the function's result 'u16' as qTD's maximum length is a 15-bit quantity anyway... Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool. Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx> --- This patch is against the 'usb-next' branch of Greg KH's 'usb.git' repo. drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: usb/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c =================================================================== --- usb.orig/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c +++ usb/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c @@ -33,12 +33,13 @@ /* fill a qtd, returning how much of the buffer we were able to queue up */ -static int +static u16 qtd_fill(struct ehci_hcd *ehci, struct ehci_qtd *qtd, dma_addr_t buf, size_t len, int token, int maxpacket) { - int i, count; u64 addr = buf; + u16 count; + int i; /* one buffer entry per 4K ... first might be short or unaligned */ qtd->hw_buf[0] = cpu_to_hc32(ehci, (u32)addr);