linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] KDB: Fix incorrect treatment of numbers in the CLI

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Message-ID: <20241019204212.GA811391@lichtman.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:42:12 +0000
From: Nir Lichtman <nir@...htman.org>
To: jason.wessel@...driver.com, daniel.thompson@...aro.org,
	dianders@...omium.org, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] KDB: Fix incorrect treatment of numbers in the CLI

Problem: In many cases, KDB treats invalid commands as numbers and
instead of printing a usage error, goes ahead and just prints the number
in hex

Example: This can be demonstrated when typing for example "aaazzz", this
confuses KDB into thinking this is the hexadecimal 0xAAA

Solution: Transition to using kstrtoul instead of simple_strtoul.
This function is more strict with what it treats as a number
and thus solves the issue.
(also better practice as stated in the definition of simple_strtoul).

v2: Removed redundant if condition I put in v1

Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@...htman.org>
---
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
index f5f7d7fb5936..4cbd5cd26821 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -402,18 +402,15 @@ static void kdb_printenv(void)
  */
 int kdbgetularg(const char *arg, unsigned long *value)
 {
-	char *endp;
 	unsigned long val;
 
-	val = simple_strtoul(arg, &endp, 0);
 
-	if (endp == arg) {
+	if (kstrtoul(arg, 0, &val) != 0) {
 		/*
 		 * Also try base 16, for us folks too lazy to type the
 		 * leading 0x...
 		 */
-		val = simple_strtoul(arg, &endp, 16);
-		if (endp == arg)
+		if (kstrtoul(arg, 16, &val) != 0)
 			return KDB_BADINT;
 	}
 
-- 
2.39.2