Re: [PATCH v3 -mm 9/9] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:19:10 +0530
Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> wrote:

> +/*
> + * Wrapper over simple_strtol (base 10) with sanity and range checking.
> + * We return (signed) long only because we may want to return errors.
> + * Do not use this to convert numbers that are allowed to be negative.
> + */
> +static long strtol10_check_range(const char *cp, long min, long max)
> +{
> +	long ret;
> +	char *p = (char *) cp;
> +
> +	WARN_ON(min < 0);
> +	WARN_ON(max < min);
> +
> +	ret = simple_strtol(p, &p, 10);
> +
> +	if (*p && (*p != '\n')) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "netconsole: invalid input\n");
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +	if ((ret < min) || (ret > max)) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "netconsole: input %ld must be between "
> +				"%ld and %ld\n", ret, min, max);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}

There's probably other code around the place which does this.  It might
be worth making this function a general-purpose thing.