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From: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc/cache.h: replace simple_strtoul
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:04:03 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1207052030500.6309@debianer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120704235921.GA26797@fieldses.org>


On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:00:26AM +0200, Eldad Zack wrote:
> > This patch replaces the usage of simple_strtoul with kstrtoint in
> > get_int().
> 
> Why?

Since the simple_str* family don't account for overflow and AFAIK
deprecated. Also, in this specific case, the long from strtol is 
silently converted to an int by the caller.

Eldad



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-05 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-04 23:00 [PATCH 1/2] sunrpc/cache.h: fix coding style Eldad Zack
2012-07-04 23:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc/cache.h: replace simple_strtoul Eldad Zack
2012-07-04 23:23   ` Joe Perches
2012-07-05 18:59     ` Eldad Zack
2012-07-04 23:59   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-05 19:04     ` Eldad Zack [this message]
2012-07-05 19:13       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-05 19:57         ` Eldad Zack

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