[PATCH] staging: speakup: remove simple_strtoul()

Gabriel Fedel fedel at fedel.net.br
Tue May 22 16:42:32 EDT 2018


Em 20-05-2018 09:33, Greg KH escreveu:
> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 07:02:36PM -0300, Gabriel Fedel wrote:
>> Replace simple_strtoul() with kstrtoul(), because simple_strtoul() is
>> obsolete
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Fedel <fedel at fedel.net.br>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 7 +++++--
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
>> b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
>> index f1f9022..ddc5ac3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
>> @@ -154,7 +154,9 @@ static ssize_t chars_chartab_store(struct kobject *kobj,
>>  			continue;
>>  		}
>>
>> -		index = simple_strtoul(cp, &temp, 10);
>> +		if  kstrtoul((char *)cp, 10, &index) != 0
>> +			pr_warn("overflow or parsing error has occurred");
>> +
>
> Did you even build this code?
Sorry! I sent wrong patch version.
>
> And kstrtoul is not a "drop in replacement" for simple_strtoul(),
> otherwise we would have done that tree-wide fixup by now.  Please be
> careful and understand the change, and the C language, when you make a
> kernel code change.
You are right, I understand the wrong use now.

I working in another patch version, making adjustments to use kstrtoul, 
and I will send soon.

>
> And again, always test-build your code.
Yes, this will not repeat.

>
> thanks,
thank you, and sorry again for this very ugly patch

>
> greg k-h
>



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