netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/1] ip netns: use strtol() instead of atoi()

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Message-ID: <20171031173101.59e0047a@shemminger-XPS-13-9360>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:31:01 +0100
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/1] ip netns: use strtol() instead of atoi()

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:55:27 -0400
Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com> wrote:

> Use strtol-based API to parse and validate integer input; atoi() does not detect
> errors and may yield undefined behaviour if result can't be represented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>

Since network namespace is really an unsigned value, shouldn't it be
using get_unsigned?