From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755825Ab2GaEyc (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:54:32 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:48850 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755702Ab2GaEvF (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:51:05 -0400 Message-Id: <20120731044316.425977832@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:43:42 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Shuah Khan , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: [ 32/73] x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup In-Reply-To: <20120731044310.013763753@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Shuah Khan commit e826abd523913f63eb03b59746ffb16153c53dc4 upstream. Change reload_for_cpu() in kernel/microcode_core.c to call kstrtoul() instead of calling obsoleted simple_strtoul(). Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336324264.2897.9.camel@lorien2 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c index c9bda6d..fbdfc69 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c @@ -299,12 +299,11 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct device *dev, { unsigned long val; int cpu = dev->id; - int ret = 0; - char *end; + ssize_t ret = 0; - val = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 0); - if (end == buf) - return -EINVAL; + ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &val); + if (ret) + return ret; if (val == 1) { get_online_cpus();