static void snoop_urb(struct urb *urb, void __user *userurb)
 {
-       int j;
+       unsigned j;
        unsigned char *data = urb->transfer_buffer;
 
        if (!usbfs_snoop)
        dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "direction=%s\n",
                        usb_urb_dir_in(urb) ? "IN" : "OUT");
        dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "userurb=%p\n", userurb);
-       dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "transfer_buffer_length=%d\n",
+       dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "transfer_buffer_length=%u\n",
                 urb->transfer_buffer_length);
-       dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "actual_length=%d\n", urb->actual_length);
+       dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "actual_length=%u\n", urb->actual_length);
        dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "data: ");
        for (j = 0; j < urb->transfer_buffer_length; ++j)
                printk("%02x ", data[j]);
 
  * helper routine for returning string descriptors in UTF-16LE
  * input can actually be ISO-8859-1; ASCII is its 7-bit subset
  */
-static int ascii2utf (char *s, u8 *utf, int utfmax)
+static unsigned ascii2utf(char *s, u8 *utf, int utfmax)
 {
-       int retval;
+       unsigned retval;
 
        for (retval = 0; *s && utfmax > 1; utfmax -= 2, retval += 2) {
                *utf++ = *s++;
  * Produces either a manufacturer, product or serial number string for the
  * virtual root hub device.
  */
-static int rh_string (
-       int             id,
-       struct usb_hcd  *hcd,
-       u8              *data,
-       int             len
-) {
+static unsigned rh_string(int id, struct usb_hcd *hcd, u8 *data, unsigned len)
+{
        char buf [100];
 
        // language ids
        if (id == 0) {
                buf[0] = 4;    buf[1] = 3;      /* 4 bytes string data */
                buf[2] = 0x09; buf[3] = 0x04;   /* MSFT-speak for "en-us" */
-               len = min (len, 4);
+               len = min_t(unsigned, len, 4);
                memcpy (data, buf, len);
                return len;
 
        } else if (id == 3) {
                snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "%s %s %s", init_utsname()->sysname,
                        init_utsname()->release, hcd->driver->description);
-
-       // unsupported IDs --> "protocol stall"
-       } else
-               return -EPIPE;
+       }
 
        switch (len) {          /* All cases fall through */
        default:
        u8              tbuf [sizeof (struct usb_hub_descriptor)]
                __attribute__((aligned(4)));
        const u8        *bufp = tbuf;
-       int             len = 0;
+       unsigned        len = 0;
        int             status;
-       int             n;
        u8              patch_wakeup = 0;
        u8              patch_protocol = 0;
 
                                patch_wakeup = 1;
                        break;
                case USB_DT_STRING << 8:
-                       n = rh_string (wValue & 0xff, hcd, ubuf, wLength);
-                       if (n < 0)
+                       if ((wValue & 0xff) < 4)
+                               urb->actual_length = rh_string(wValue & 0xff,
+                                               hcd, ubuf, wLength);
+                       else /* unsupported IDs --> "protocol stall" */
                                goto error;
-                       urb->actual_length = n;
                        break;
                default:
                        goto error;
 {
        int             retval;
        unsigned long   flags;
-       int             len = 1 + (urb->dev->maxchild / 8);
+       unsigned        len = 1 + (urb->dev->maxchild / 8);
 
        spin_lock_irqsave (&hcd_root_hub_lock, flags);
        if (hcd->status_urb || urb->transfer_buffer_length < len) {