[PATCH 1/2] staging: lustre: lprocfs: Use kstrtouint_from_user

From: Mathias Rav
Date: Thu May 04 2017 - 12:15:08 EST


Prefer kstrtouint_from_user to copy_from_user+simple_strtoul.

The helper function lprocfs_wr_uint() is only used to implement
"dump_granted_max" in debugfs.

Note the slight change in semantics: The previous implementation using
simple_strtoul allows garbage after the number, whereas kstrtox only allows
a trailing line break. The previous implementation allowed a write of zero
bytes whereas kstrtox will return -EINVAL. Since this only affects a single
debugfs endpoint, this should be a permissible slight change of semantics
in exchange for 18 fewer lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Rav <mathiasrav@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c | 22 +---------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
index 1ec6e3767d81..338ce34d6514 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
@@ -399,27 +399,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lprocfs_rd_uint);
int lprocfs_wr_uint(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
unsigned long count, void *data)
{
- unsigned *p = data;
- char dummy[MAX_STRING_SIZE + 1], *end;
- unsigned long tmp;
-
- if (count >= sizeof(dummy))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if (count == 0)
- return 0;
-
- if (copy_from_user(dummy, buffer, count))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- dummy[count] = '\0';
-
- tmp = simple_strtoul(dummy, &end, 0);
- if (dummy == end)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- *p = (unsigned int)tmp;
- return count;
+ return kstrtouint_from_user(buffer, count, 0, (unsigned int *)data);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(lprocfs_wr_uint);

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