Re: [PATCH 1/1] fs/ncpfs/getopt.c: replace simple_strtoul by kstrtoul

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu May 29 2014 - 18:21:59 EST


On Fri, 23 May 2014 22:26:11 +0200 Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Remove obsolete simple_strtoul in ncp_getopt

Looks good to me.

>
> --- a/fs/ncpfs/getopt.c
> +++ b/fs/ncpfs/getopt.c
> @@ -53,15 +53,14 @@ int ncp_getopt(const char *caller, char **options, const struct ncp_option *opts
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> if (opts->has_arg & OPT_INT) {
> - char* v;
> + int rc = kstrtoul(val, 0, value);
>
> - *value = simple_strtoul(val, &v, 0);
> - if (!*v) {
> - return opts->val;
> + if (rc) {
> + pr_info("%s: invalid numeric value in %s=%s\n",
> + caller, token, val);
> + return rc;

Because kstrtoul("42foo", ...) returns -EINVAL rather than 42. This
behaviour isn't obvious - I had to dive into the implementation to work
it out. We forgot to document what kstrtoul() considers a "parsing
error".


> }
> - pr_info("%s: invalid numeric value in %s=%s\n",
> - caller, token, val);
> - return -EDOM;
> + return opts->val;
> }
> if (opts->has_arg & OPT_STRING) {
> return opts->val;
> --
> 1.9.1
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