Re: [PATCH v2] panic: setup panic_timeout early

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> +static int __init set_panic_timeout(char *val)
> >> +{
> >> +     long timeout;
> >> +     int ret;
> >> +
> >> +     ret = kstrtol(val, 0, &timeout);
> >> +     if (ret < 0)
> >> +             return ret;
> >> +
> >> +     panic_timeout = timeout;
> >> +     return 0;
> >> +}
> >
> > I think the type of the 'timeout' local variable should match the type of
> > 'panic_timeout' (which is 'int', not 'long').
> 
> So you would rather have this?
> 
>   kstrtol(val, 0, (long *)&timeout);
> 
> Couldn't that potentially write the value beyond the memory 
> allocated to 'timeout'?

No, casting that to 'long *' is actively wrong, I'd use a
string -> integer conversion method that deals with ints,
not longs, such as kstrtoint().

Thanks,

	Ingo