From 2d4594f9942862f63a749b3b743b9d51c1c7b1e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morris Jette <jette@schedmd.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:22:03 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix data sign issue

Fix for possibly treating a negative number as a positive.
Problem reported by Coverity.
---
 src/slurmctld/licenses.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/slurmctld/licenses.c b/src/slurmctld/licenses.c
index e60bb02b4d1..07e52a1a55e 100644
--- a/src/slurmctld/licenses.c
+++ b/src/slurmctld/licenses.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static List _build_license_list(char *licenses, bool *valid)
 	tmp_str = xstrdup(licenses);
 	token = strtok_r(tmp_str, ",;", &last);
 	while (token && *valid) {
-		uint32_t num = 1;
+		int32_t num = 1;
 		for (i = 0; token[i]; i++) {
 			if (isspace(token[i])) {
 				*valid = false;
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static List _build_license_list(char *licenses, bool *valid)
 			 */
 			if ((token[i] == ':') || (token[i] == '*')) {
 				token[i++] = '\0';
-				num = (uint32_t)strtol(&token[i], &end_num,10);
+				num = (int32_t)strtol(&token[i], &end_num, 10);
 			}
 		}
 		if (num < 0) {
-- 
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