netdev - RE: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] utils: add s32 parser

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Date:	Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:46:09 -0000
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Hagen Paul Pfeifer" <hagen@...u.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] utils: add s32 parser

> +int get_s32(__s32 *val, const char *arg, int base)
> +{
> +	long res;
> +	char *ptr;
> +
> +	if (!arg || !*arg)
> +		return -1;

No need to check *arg, picked up below.

> +	res = strtoul(arg, &ptr, base);
> +	if (!ptr || ptr == arg || *ptr || res > INT32_MAX || res <
INT32_MIN)

No need to check !ptr.

> +		return -1;
> +	*val = res;
> +	return 0;
> +}

Seems to me this be commoned with get_s16() by using
a function that takes the bounds as parameters.
Or possibly with a wrapper to strtoul() that does all the
validation checks.

	David



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