lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Oct]   [15]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
Date
SubjectRe: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] sysctl: cap to ULONG_MAX in proc_get_long()
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:27 PM Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > int kstrtoul_bounded(const char *s, unsigned int base,
> > char **trailing, unsigned long long *res)
>
> NO! The whole point is not have million variants of slightly different
> integer parsing functions.
> Cap it in the sysctl -- noone would care.

(Please keep the CC list when replying.)

Whatever works; I prefer the local strtoul_cap_erange() in kernel/sysctl.c as
well.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-10-15 21:33    [W:0.053 / U:0.584 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site