diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index ee4804f..615c955 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -690,6 +690,8 @@
         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 07f90f1..739726c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
+
 - classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
 
 - Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index 27b41bb..4105fa2 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -2773,7 +2773,7 @@
     if (PyByteArray_Resize((PyObject *)self, n - 1) < 0)
         return NULL;
 
-    return PyInt_FromLong(value);
+    return PyInt_FromLong((unsigned char)value);
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(remove__doc__,