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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: add overflow detection to proc_get_long()
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 03:25:09PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:

> +static unsigned long sysctl_strtoul_lenient(const char *cp, char **endp,
> + unsigned int base, bool *overflow)
> +{
> + unsigned long long result;
> + unsigned int rv;
> +
> + cp = _parse_integer_fixup_radix(cp, &base);
> + rv = _parse_integer(cp, base, &result);
> + if ((rv & KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW) ||
> + (result != (unsigned long long)(unsigned long)result))
> + *overflow = true;
> + else
> + *overflow = false;

Yecchh... First of all, the cast back to unsigned long long is completely
pointless. What's more,
if (expr)
foo = true;
else
foo = flase;
is a fairly unidiomatic way to spell foo = expr;

And... is there anything that would really care if this "overflow" thing had
been replaced by simply returning ~0UL on such? That would appear to be
a lot more natural API...

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