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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc/cache.h: replace simple_strtoul

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




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