linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: replace simple

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:19:27 +0200
From:	Luis de Bethencourt <luis@...ethencourt.com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
	Melike Yurtoglu <aysemelikeyurtoglu@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Domagoj Trsan <domagoj.trsan@...il.com>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: replace simple_strtoul() with
 kstrtoint()

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:53:30AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:15:52AM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:53:33AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > Nope.  Your patch is totally wrong (buggy).  Please be more careful in
> > > the future.
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > dan carpenter
> > > 
> > 
> > I saw other commits replace the obsolete simple_strtoul() this way and the
> > documentation makes it look like it is a 1 to 1 replacement.
> > 
> > Sorry about this. I will investigate further to understand why this is buggy
> > and be more careful in the future.
> simple_strtoul returns unsigned long and kstrtoint gives int.
> documentation says to use kstrtoul.
> 
> regards
> sudip

Hello again Sudip :)

simple_strtoul returns an unsigned long, but in this case this is downcasted to
int val. If we use kstrtoul there would be a type warning since the function
expects the reference to an unsigned long. Which is why I used the related
kstrtoint.

Dan has said this is buggy. I have an idea why this might be. I am isolating
the code and playing with it before submitting a second version.

Thanks for the review.

Luis
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