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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Matteo Croce <mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Revert "kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint"
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 19:02:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201105180215.GG1602@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201103214025.116799-2-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>

On Tue 2020-11-03 22:40:23, Matteo Croce wrote:
> From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
> 
> This reverts commit 616feab753972b9751308f3cd2a68fc57eae8edb.
> 
> kstrtoint() and simple_strtoul() have a subtle difference which makes
> them non interchangeable: if a non digit character is found amid the
> parsing, the former will return an error, while the latter will just
> stop parsing, e.g. simple_strtoul("123xyx") = 123.
> 
> The kernel cmdline reboot= argument allows to specify the CPU used
> for rebooting, with the syntax `s####` among the other flags,
> e.g. "reboot=warm,s31,force", so if this flag is not the last given,
> it's silently ignored as well as the subsequent ones.
> 
> Fixes: 616feab75397 ("kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Best Regards,
Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-05 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-03 21:40 [PATCH v3 0/3] fix parsing of reboot= cmdline Matteo Croce
2020-11-03 21:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Revert "kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint" Matteo Croce
2020-11-05 18:02   ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2020-11-03 21:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] reboot: fix overflow parsing reboot cpu number Matteo Croce
2020-11-05 18:09   ` Petr Mladek
2020-11-05 18:14     ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-06 10:18       ` Petr Mladek
2020-11-03 21:40 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] reboot: refactor and comment the cpu selection code Matteo Croce
2020-11-05 18:09   ` Petr Mladek

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