Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18;
Date:   Fri, 15 May 2020 13:21:21 -0400
From:   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@cmss.chinamobile.com>,
        Tang Bin <tangbin@cmss.chinamobile.com>,
        linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix less than zero comparison
 of an unsigned int
Message-ID: <20200515172121.GA5498@rowland.harvard.edu>
References: <20200515165453.104028-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20200515165453.104028-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 05:54:53PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> The comparison of hcd->irq to less than zero for an error check will
> never be true because hcd->irq is an unsigned int.  Fix this by
> assigning the int retval to the return of platform_get_irq and checking
> this for the -ve error condition and assigning hcd->irq to retval.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Fixes: c856b4b0fdb5 ("USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix error handling in mv_ehci_probe()")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---

Thanks to Coverity for spotting this.  Any reason why it didn't spot 
exactly the same mistake in the ohci-da8xx.c driver?

Also, why wasn't the patch CC'ed for the stable series?

Alan Stern