linux-kernel - [patch] x86, kmemcheck: Use kstrtoint() instead of sscanf()

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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:14:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
cc:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] x86, kmemcheck: Use kstrtoint() instead of sscanf()

Kmemcheck should use the preferred interface for parsing command line 
arguments, kstrto*(), rather than sscanf() itself.  Use it appropriately.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
@@ -78,10 +78,16 @@ early_initcall(kmemcheck_init);
  */
 static int __init param_kmemcheck(char *str)
 {
+	int val;
+	int ret;
+
 	if (!str)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	sscanf(str, "%d", &kmemcheck_enabled);
+	ret = kstrtoint(str, 0, &val);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+	kmemcheck_enabled = val;
 	return 0;
 }
 
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