linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] lib/kstrtox.c: Add "false"/"true" support to kstrtobool()

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Message-ID: <20220826103557.GA19505@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:35:58 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        ying.huang@...el.com, dave.hansen@...el.com,
        Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com, adobriyan@...il.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rf@...nsource.cirrus.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] lib/kstrtox.c: Add "false"/"true" support to
 kstrtobool()

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 03:39:19PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Fri 2022-07-29 17:36:50, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Actually kstrtobool() has been designed as a generic parser that should have
> > lowest priority. It means that the code that uses it should take care of any
> > other custom cases _before_ calling for kstrtobool().
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> Jagdish, could you please send a patch fixing the "rodata" early_param
> in arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c?
> 
> Please, also add:
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v5.19+

I have a fix already queued here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/fixes&id=2e8cff0a0eee87b27f0cf87ad8310eb41b5886ab

Sadly, it's missing the stable tag, but we can always send it manually if
the robot doesn't grab it.

Will