Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: fix misuse of kstrtol() in handle_goto()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Apr 09 2014 - 07:39:33 EST


On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:45:46PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
>
> A string of goto_buf has a number followed by x or y.
> e.g. "3x" means move 3 lines down.
> The kstrtol() returns an error(-EINVAL) with this string so
> go_pos has unsigned a value of that error.
> And also "*cp" has not expected value.
>

Good catch. This was introduced when we changed the simple_strtoul() to
kstrtol().

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Did you find this bug by testing or through reading the code?

regards,
dan carpenter

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