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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kdb: use kstrto instead of simple_strto
On 05/31/2015 02:29 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> Replace obsolete simple_strto* calls with appropriate kstrto*
>> functions.
>> static int kdb_kill(int argc, const char **argv)
>> {
>> long sig, pid;
>> - char *endp;
>> struct task_struct *p;
>> struct siginfo info;
>>
>> if (argc != 2)
>> return KDB_ARGCOUNT;
>>
>> - sig = simple_strtol(argv[1], &endp, 0);
>> - if (*endp)
>> + if (kstrtol(argv[1], 0, &sig) != 0)
>> return KDB_BADINT;
>> if (sig >= 0) {
>> kdb_printf("Invalid signal parameter.<-signal>\n");
>> <at> <at> -2453,8 +2435,7 <at> <at> static int kdb_kill(int argc, const char **argv)
>> }
>> sig = -sig;
>>
>> - pid = simple_strtol(argv[2], &endp, 0);
>> - if (*endp)
>> + if (kstrtol(argv[2], 0, &pid) != 0)
>> return KDB_BADINT;
>> if (pid <= 0) {
>> kdb_printf("Process ID must be large than 0.\n");
> This patch does easy mistake, namely trivial switch from simple_strtoul() to kstrtoul().
>
> But you have to remember that there are NO simple_strtoint() or something like that,
> so real type of data is anchor not function name.
>
> In the code above data are "sig" and "pid" which are "int" or "unsigned int" at most.
> Later "sig" is negated, so "int sig" is OK.

Thank you for the feedback, I know there is no simple_strtoint and the patch
uses kstrtoint/uint where the variable is declared as int/unsigned int
(not doing
so would cause compilation warnings).
> Pids are always unsigned logically so "unsigned int" is correct.
>
> Don't be afraid to switch type of variable to correct one. Most of
> the time "unsigned long foo" is wrong becase C-derived api didn't offer
> anything better.

pid and sig variables are declared as long, I didn't know why so I
didn't change
that, I will change their types to uint and int as you said and resend
the patch soon.


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