Re: [patch] x86, kmemcheck: Use kstrtoint() instead of sscanf()

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Mar 03 2014 - 08:15:12 EST


On 02/20/2014 12:14 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
Kmemcheck should use the preferred interface for parsing command line
arguments, kstrto*(), rather than sscanf() itself. Use it appropriately.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Andrew, can you pick this up?

---
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
@@ -78,10 +78,16 @@ early_initcall(kmemcheck_init);
*/
static int __init param_kmemcheck(char *str)
{
+ int val;
+ int ret;
+
if (!str)
return -EINVAL;
- sscanf(str, "%d", &kmemcheck_enabled);
+ ret = kstrtoint(str, 0, &val);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ kmemcheck_enabled = val;
return 0;
}

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