linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 11/15] livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled

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Message-Id: <29b9cd70ef07892dfe5d250f26cdea839231632f.1484839971.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:46:19 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 11/15] livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store()

The sysfs enabled value is a boolean, so kstrtobool() is a better fit
for parsing the input string since it does the range checking for us.

Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
---
 kernel/livepatch/core.c | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index 6a137e1..83c4949 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -408,26 +408,23 @@ static ssize_t enabled_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 {
 	struct klp_patch *patch;
 	int ret;
-	unsigned long val;
+	bool enabled;
 
-	ret = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &val);
+	ret = kstrtobool(buf, &enabled);
 	if (ret)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	if (val > 1)
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return ret;
 
 	patch = container_of(kobj, struct klp_patch, kobj);
 
 	mutex_lock(&klp_mutex);
 
-	if (patch->enabled == val) {
+	if (patch->enabled == enabled) {
 		/* already in requested state */
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto err;
 	}
 
-	if (val) {
+	if (enabled) {
 		ret = __klp_enable_patch(patch);
 		if (ret)
 			goto err;
-- 
2.7.4