This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bnxt_en: fix ternary sign extension bug in bnxt_show_temp() to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bnxt_en-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bug-in-bnxt_show_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f0e2125a8b9ce38c81b8cd41e61b00c2458341d8 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 22 12:10:28 2021 +0300 bnxt_en: fix ternary sign extension bug in bnxt_show_temp() [ Upstream commit 27537929f30d3136a71ef29db56127a33c92dad7 ] The problem is that bnxt_show_temp() returns long but "rc" is an int and "len" is a u32. With ternary operations the type promotion is quite tricky. The negative "rc" is first promoted to u32 and then to long so it ends up being a high positive value instead of a a negative as we intended. Fix this by removing the ternary. Fixes: d69753fa1ecb ("bnxt_en: return proper error codes in bnxt_show_temp") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c index a59c1f1fb31e..512457e0301d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -9546,7 +9546,9 @@ static ssize_t bnxt_show_temp(struct device *dev, if (!rc) len = sprintf(buf, "%u\n", resp->temp * 1000); /* display millidegree */ mutex_unlock(&bp->hwrm_cmd_lock); - return rc ?: len; + if (rc) + return rc; + return len; } static SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR(temp1_input, 0444, bnxt_show_temp, NULL, 0);