On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 06:54:13PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 11:11:11AM -0500, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote: > > I think it's not very good idea to use kstrtoull() in > > arch/x86/boot/compressed/* because some tricks are needed to > > use the function, looks like Chao is trying... > > Ok, I had a look at the patch. And frankly, I don't see anything wrong > with the aspect of using kstrtoull() in the compressed stage too and > getting rid of simple_strtoull(). > > So what are your reservations? Thank you for your checking. I just felt the BOOT_STRING thing in lib/kstrtox.c confuses... I'm OK for now if it's applied your below comment. > > @@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ int kstrtoull(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res) > > } > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtoull); > > This needs a comment to explain what is that guard used for. Thanks, Masa
