From: Guojia Liao <redacted>

[ Upstream commit e79c0e324b011b0288cd411a5b53870a7730f163 ]

abs() returns signed long, which could not convert the type
as unsigned, and it may cause a mismatch type warning from
static tools. To fix it, this patch uses an variable to save
the abs()'s result and does a explicit conversion.

Signed-off-by: Guojia Liao <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Guangbin Huang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_mbx.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_mbx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_mbx.c
index 38b601031db4..95343f6d15e1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_mbx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_mbx.c

@@ -10,7 +10,14 @@
 
 static u16 hclge_errno_to_resp(int errno)
 {
-	return abs(errno);
+	int resp = abs(errno);
+
+	/* The status for pf to vf msg cmd is u16, constrainted by HW.
+	 * We need to keep the same type with it.
+	 * The intput errno is the stander error code, it's safely to
+	 * use a u16 to store the abs(errno).
+	 */
+	return (u16)resp;
 }
 
 /* hclge_gen_resp_to_vf: used to generate a synchronous response to VF when PF

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