The patch titled Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c: fix several error checks has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was drivers-rtc-rtc-spearc-fix-several-error-checks.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c: fix several error checks There are several comparisons of a unsigned int to less than zero int spear RTC driver. Such a check will always be true. In all these cases a signed int is assigned to the unsigned variable, which is checked, before. So the right fix is to make the checked variable signed as well. In one case the check can be dropped completely, because all it does it returns 'err' if 'err' is less than zero, otherwise it returns 0. Since in this particular case 'err' is always either 0 or less this is the same as just returning 'err'. The issue has been found using the following coccinelle semantic patch: //<smpl> @@ type T; unsigned T i; @@ ( *i < 0 | *i >= 0 ) //</smpl> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxx> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c~drivers-rtc-rtc-spearc-fix-several-error-checks drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c~drivers-rtc-rtc-spearc-fix-several-error-checks +++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static int spear_rtc_read_time(struct de static int spear_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm) { struct spear_rtc_config *config = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - unsigned int time, date, err = 0; + unsigned int time, date; if (tm2bcd(tm) < 0) return -EINVAL; @@ -247,11 +247,8 @@ static int spear_rtc_set_time(struct dev (tm->tm_year << YEAR_SHIFT); writel(time, config->ioaddr + TIME_REG); writel(date, config->ioaddr + DATE_REG); - err = is_write_complete(config); - if (err < 0) - return err; - return 0; + return is_write_complete(config); } /* @@ -295,7 +292,8 @@ static int spear_rtc_read_alarm(struct d static int spear_rtc_set_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alm) { struct spear_rtc_config *config = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - unsigned int time, date, err = 0; + unsigned int time, date; + int err; if (tm2bcd(&alm->time) < 0) return -EINVAL; @@ -357,7 +355,7 @@ static int __devinit spear_rtc_probe(str { struct resource *res; struct spear_rtc_config *config; - unsigned int status = 0; + int status = 0; int irq; res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lars@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html