The sscanf() function never returns negatives. It returns the number of items successfully read. Fixes: 1a218d312e65 ("platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Add Mellanox BlueField PMC driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c index c2c9b0d3244c..be967d797c28 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c +++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c @@ -1348,9 +1348,8 @@ static int mlxbf_pmc_map_counters(struct device *dev) for (i = 0; i < pmc->total_blocks; ++i) { if (strstr(pmc->block_name[i], "tile")) { - ret = sscanf(pmc->block_name[i], "tile%d", &tile_num); - if (ret < 0) - return ret; + if (sscanf(pmc->block_name[i], "tile%d", &tile_num) != 1) + return -EINVAL; if (tile_num >= pmc->tile_count) continue; -- 2.39.2