diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
index d3883f639604dc3522e8ff724c111017c61c8f11..df3c539f652ad68767d8ce7e424493e91d44d109 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static struct async *async_getpending(struct dev_state *ps,
 
 static void snoop_urb(struct urb *urb, void __user *userurb)
 {
-	int j;
+	unsigned j;
 	unsigned char *data = urb->transfer_buffer;
 
 	if (!usbfs_snoop)
@@ -311,9 +311,9 @@ static void snoop_urb(struct urb *urb, void __user *userurb)
 	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]);
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
index 0eee32a65e230b291aa6c464c64c50cf14e40f9a..81fa8506825d444f424db8d506b8a67dc1b8709d 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
@@ -279,9 +279,9 @@ static const u8 hs_rh_config_descriptor [] = {
  * 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++;
@@ -304,19 +304,15 @@ static int ascii2utf (char *s, u8 *utf, int utfmax)
  * 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;
 
@@ -332,10 +328,7 @@ static int rh_string (
 	} 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:
@@ -360,9 +353,8 @@ static int rh_call_control (struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb)
 	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;
 
@@ -456,10 +448,11 @@ static int rh_call_control (struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb)
 				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;
@@ -629,7 +622,7 @@ static int rh_queue_status (struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb)
 {
 	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) {
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 81eb3e6b659203a8f2f0b1e904602b19c494812c..be86ae3f40881516d529a894319ed52c71086b82 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ static void hub_irq(struct urb *urb)
 {
 	struct usb_hub *hub = urb->context;
 	int status = urb->status;
-	int i;
+	unsigned i;
 	unsigned long bits;
 
 	switch (status) {
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/message.c b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
index 3922fa915ed20cfd0eeb1171ec2949eedf34e424..293a30d78d24cbcbf77cb824978c07babf3b5c88 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/message.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int usb_start_wait_urb(struct urb *urb, int timeout, int *actual_length)
 		retval = (ctx.status == -ENOENT ? -ETIMEDOUT : ctx.status);
 
 		dev_dbg(&urb->dev->dev,
-			"%s timed out on ep%d%s len=%d/%d\n",
+			"%s timed out on ep%d%s len=%u/%u\n",
 			current->comm,
 			usb_endpoint_num(&urb->ep->desc),
 			usb_urb_dir_in(urb) ? "in" : "out",
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
index 7025d801f23a71640197bc6b640110f51b8361d8..3376055f36e7349057531b41c080832c5bd04623 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
 	}
 
 	/* the I/O buffer must be mapped/unmapped, except when length=0 */
-	if (urb->transfer_buffer_length < 0)
+	if (urb->transfer_buffer_length > INT_MAX)
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 #ifdef DEBUG