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From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> This fixes coverity Bug #390. With the following code ret = ep->branch = balance(isp116x, ep->period, ep->load); if (ret < 0) goto fail; the problem is that ret and balance are of the type int, and ep->branch is u16. so the int balance() returns gets reduced to u16 and then converted to an int again, which removes the sign. Maybe the following little c program can explain it better: