diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index caea9094b18..dd01b936b26 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -716,6 +716,8 @@ class ByteArrayTest(BaseBytesTest):
         self.assertEqual(b.pop(-2), ord('r'))
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, lambda: b.pop(10))
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, lambda: bytearray().pop())
+        # test for issue #6846
+        self.assertEqual(bytearray(b'\xff').pop(), 0xff)
 
     def test_nosort(self):
         self.assertRaises(AttributeError, lambda: bytearray().sort())
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6e6aa540cfa..7243eb96ddf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
+
 - Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
   when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
 
diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index f3d569712f6..f8f9469f5f4 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -2705,7 +2705,7 @@ bytearray_pop(PyByteArrayObject *self, PyObject *args)
     if (PyByteArray_Resize((PyObject *)self, n - 1) < 0)
         return NULL;
 
-    return PyLong_FromLong(value);
+    return PyLong_FromLong((unsigned char)value);
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(remove__doc__,