linux-kernel - 2.6.23-rc2-mm2: strtol_check

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:29:07 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
To:	akpm@...l.org, satyam@...radead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2: strtol_check_range patches

Andrew please drop
	introduce-strtol_check_range-fix.patch
	introduce-strtol_check_range.patch
from -mm.

strtol_check_range() semantics is broken, because caller can't distinguish
-E from valid negative number if he wants to negative integers. Comment
mentions this, but we don't want to such horrible and not well thought
out function to lib/ .

If anything it should be strtonum() with additional trailing '\n' check.

+ * Do not use this to convert numbers that are allowed to be negative.
+ */
+long strtol_check_range(const char *cp, long min, long max, unsigned int base)
+{
+       long ret;
+       char *p = (char *) cp;
+
+       WARN_ON(min < 0);
+       WARN_ON(max < min);
+
+       ret = simple_strtol(p, &p, base);
+
+       if (*p && (*p != '\n'))
+               return -EINVAL;
+       if ((ret < min) || (ret > max))
+               return -EINVAL;
+
+       return ret;
+}

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