linux-kernel - Re: + vsprintf-reuse-almost-identical-simple_strtoulx-functions.patch added to -mm tree

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Date:	Sat, 5 Dec 2009 02:13:58 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	andre.goddard@...il.com
Cc:	akmp@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: +
 vsprintf-reuse-almost-identical-simple_strtoulx-functions.patch added to
 -mm tree

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:32:06PM -0800, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> The difference between simple_strtoul() and simple_strtoull() is just
> the size of the variable used to keep track of the sum of characters
> converted to numbers:
> 
> unsigned long simple_strtoul() {...}
> unsigned long long simple_strtoull(){...}

> Overflow condition is not checked on both functions,

and we should start doing it and remove strict_* idiocy.
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