Re: [PATCH] md: Subject: introduce get_priority_stripe() to improve raid456 write performance

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:45:28 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> +static ssize_t
> +raid5_store_preread_threshold(mddev_t *mddev, const char *page, size_t len)
> +{
> +	raid5_conf_t *conf = mddev_to_conf(mddev);
> +	char *end;
> +	int new;
> +	if (len >= PAGE_SIZE)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	if (!conf)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	new = simple_strtoul(page, &end, 10);
> +	if (!*page || (*end && *end != '\n'))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	if (new > conf->max_nr_stripes || new < 0)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	conf->bypass_threshold = new;
> +	return len;
> +}

checkpatch 0.16 (which I misfiled and have thus far failed to merge up)
sayeth:

WARNING: consider using strict_strtoul in preference to simple_strtoul
#258: FILE: drivers/md/raid5.c:4090:
+       new = simple_strtoul(page, &end, 10);

the reason being that code which uses simple_strtoul() can treat
"42-what-a-todo" as "42", which seems a bit sloppy.

Your code won't have that failing, because it explicitly checks that the
input ended in \0 or \n.  But strict_strtoul() internally does that, so this
open-coded test could be removed.