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Message-ID: <20150409152827.GB14850@p183.telecom.by>
Date:	Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:28:27 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add parse_integer() (replacement for simple_strto*())

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 	int parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, T *val);

This is an example how conversion looks like (for mm/ directory):


--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4187,20 +4187,23 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 	struct fd efile;
 	struct fd cfile;
 	const char *name;
-	char *endp;
 	int ret;
 
 	buf = strstrip(buf);
 
-	efd = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 10);
-	if (*endp != ' ')
+	ret = parse_integer(buf, 10, &efd);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+	if (buf[ret] != ' ')
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = endp + 1;
+	buf += ret + 1;
 
-	cfd = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 10);
-	if ((*endp != ' ') && (*endp != '\0'))
+	ret = parse_integer(buf, 10, &cfd);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+	if (buf[ret] != ' ' && buf[ret] != '\0')
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = endp + 1;
+	buf += ret + 1;
 
 	event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!event)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5977,7 +5977,7 @@ static int __init set_hashdist(char *str)
 {
 	if (!str)
 		return 0;
-	hashdist = simple_strtoul(str, &str, 0);
+	parse_integer(str, 0, &hashdist);
 	return 1;
 }
 __setup("hashdist=", set_hashdist);
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2742,6 +2742,7 @@ static int shmem_parse_options(char *options, struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo,
 	struct mempolicy *mpol = NULL;
 	uid_t uid;
 	gid_t gid;
+	int rv;
 
 	while (options != NULL) {
 		this_char = options;
@@ -2795,14 +2796,15 @@ static int shmem_parse_options(char *options, struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo,
 		} else if (!strcmp(this_char,"mode")) {
 			if (remount)
 				continue;
-			sbinfo->mode = simple_strtoul(value, &rest, 8) & 07777;
-			if (*rest)
+			rv = parse_integer(value, 8, &sbinfo->mode);
+			if (rv < 0 || value[rv])
 				goto bad_val;
+			sbinfo->mode &= 07777;
 		} else if (!strcmp(this_char,"uid")) {
 			if (remount)
 				continue;
-			uid = simple_strtoul(value, &rest, 0);
-			if (*rest)
+			rv = parse_integer(value, 0, &uid);
+			if (rv < 0 || value[rv])
 				goto bad_val;
 			sbinfo->uid = make_kuid(current_user_ns(), uid);
 			if (!uid_valid(sbinfo->uid))
@@ -2810,8 +2812,8 @@ static int shmem_parse_options(char *options, struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo,
 		} else if (!strcmp(this_char,"gid")) {
 			if (remount)
 				continue;
-			gid = simple_strtoul(value, &rest, 0);
-			if (*rest)
+			rv = parse_integer(value, 0, &gid);
+			if (rv < 0 || value[rv])
 				goto bad_val;
 			sbinfo->gid = make_kgid(current_user_ns(), gid);
 			if (!gid_valid(sbinfo->gid))
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