strict_strto* is not strict enough

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Nov 22 2008 - 15:32:16 EST



It decodes "\n" as 0, which is bad, because stray echo into backlight
will turn your backlight off, etc...

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index a013bbc..87d12a7 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ int strict_strtoul(const char *cp, unsig
return -EINVAL;

val = simple_strtoul(cp, &tail, base);
+ if (tail == cp)
+ return -EINVAL;
if ((*tail == '\0') ||
((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) {
*res = val;
@@ -241,6 +243,8 @@ int strict_strtoull(const char *cp, unsi
return -EINVAL;

val = simple_strtoull(cp, &tail, base);
+ if (tail == cp)
+ return -EINVAL;
if ((*tail == '\0') ||
((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) {
*res = val;

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