From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 95e4b25192e9238fd2dbe85d96dd2f8fd1ce9d14 upstream. 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> Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ccdfd28-099b-40bf-8d77-ad4ea2e76b93@kili.mountain Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- 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 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;