Re: [PATCH] crypto: qat - use strscpy_pad to simplify buffer initialization

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 05:35:00PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On 22. Oct 2025, at 20:17, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 02:36:19PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:

...

> How about this?

LGTM, and that's what I had in mind, but please double check the behaviour of
kstrtox() on an empty strings.

> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c
> index 18c3e4416dc5..04628dc01456 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_uclo.c
> @@ -200,20 +200,12 @@ qat_uclo_cleanup_batch_init_list(struct icp_qat_fw_loader_handle *handle,
>  
>  static int qat_uclo_parse_num(char *str, unsigned int *num)
>  {
> -	char buf[16] = {0};
> -	unsigned long ae = 0;
> -	int i;
> -
> -	strscpy(buf, str, sizeof(buf));
> -	for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
> -		if (!isdigit(buf[i])) {
> -			buf[i] = '\0';
> -			break;
> -		}
> -	}
> -	if ((kstrtoul(buf, 10, &ae)))
> -		return -EFAULT;
> +	unsigned long long ae;
> +	char *end;
>  
> +	ae = simple_strtoull(str, &end, 10);
> +	if (ae > UINT_MAX || str == end || (end - str) > 20)

I would go with >= 20, the 64-bit value is approx. 1 * 10^19.

> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	*num = (unsigned int)ae;
>  	return 0;
>  }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko