From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752533Ab2GET5R (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:57:17 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:48743 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751062Ab2GET5P (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:57:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:57:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Eldad Zack X-X-Sender: eldad@debianer To: "J. Bruce Fields" cc: Trond Myklebust , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc/cache.h: replace simple_strtoul In-Reply-To: <20120705191323.GA3051@fieldses.org> Message-ID: References: <1341442827-21339-1-git-send-email-eldad@fogrefinery.com> <1341442827-21339-2-git-send-email-eldad@fogrefinery.com> <20120704235921.GA26797@fieldses.org> <20120705191323.GA3051@fieldses.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Eldad Zack wrote: > > > > 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. > > OK, thanks. Please use that as the changelog when you resend. ("This > patch replaces..." tells me nothing I couldn't figure out from looking > at the patch.) Will do, sorry about that. Eldad