drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c: fix several error checks
authorLars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 00:14:01 +0000 (17:14 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:05:03 +0000 (03:05 +0900)
commita16e8393ac03cc24fd9b838f42823b4242ceac88
tree138dac2dc48a180568e90464e561a8bae3237a89
parent7c6a52a090ce7f680077ed42326e11cf17e713dc
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@metafoo.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c