linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: fix misuse of kstrtol() in handle

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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:53:52 +0900
From:	DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, sachin.kamat@...aro.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, grygorii.strashko@...com,
	lisa@...apiadmin.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: fix misuse of kstrtol() in handle_goto()

2014-04-09 20:39 GMT+09:00, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>:
> 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().

Thanks! :-)

>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>
> Did you find this bug by testing or through reading the code?
Actually, I couldn't test. I have looked the code for checking sparse
warnings and found this bug.

Regards,
Daeseok Youn

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
>
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