linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 249/366] qlogic: check kstrtoul() for errors

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Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:49:05 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 249/366] qlogic: check kstrtoul() for errors

3.16.61-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

commit 5fc853cc01c68f84984ecc2d5fd777ecad78240f upstream.

We accidentally left out the error handling for kstrtoul().

Fixes: a520030e326a ("qlcnic: Implement flash sysfs callback for 83xx adapter")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sysfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sysfs.c
@@ -1122,6 +1122,8 @@ static ssize_t qlcnic_83xx_sysfs_flash_w
 		return QL_STATUS_INVALID_PARAM;
 
 	ret = kstrtoul(buf, 16, &data);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
 	switch (data) {
 	case QLC_83XX_FLASH_SECTOR_ERASE_CMD: