You can't use kstrtoul() with an int or it causes memory corruption. Also j should be unsigned or we have underflow bugs. I considered changing "j" to unsigned long but everything fits in a u32. Fixes: 8e3d04fd7d70 ('cxgb4: Add MPS tracing support') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c index 1732e29..0a87a32 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c @@ -1289,13 +1289,14 @@ static unsigned int xdigit2int(unsigned char c) static ssize_t mps_trc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos) { - int i, j, enable, ret; + int i, enable, ret; u32 *data, *mask; struct trace_params tp; const struct inode *ino; unsigned int trcidx; char *s, *p, *word, *end; struct adapter *adap; + u32 j; ino = file_inode(file); trcidx = (uintptr_t)ino->i_private & 3; @@ -1340,7 +1341,7 @@ static ssize_t mps_trc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, if (!strncmp(word, "qid=", 4)) { end = (char *)word + 4; - ret = kstrtoul(end, 10, (unsigned long *)&j); + ret = kstrtouint(end, 10, &j); if (ret) goto out; if (!adap->trace_rss) { @@ -1369,7 +1370,7 @@ static ssize_t mps_trc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, } if (!strncmp(word, "snaplen=", 8)) { end = (char *)word + 8; - ret = kstrtoul(end, 10, (unsigned long *)&j); + ret = kstrtouint(end, 10, &j); if (ret || j > 9600) { inval: count = -EINVAL; goto out; @@ -1379,7 +1380,7 @@ inval: count = -EINVAL; } if (!strncmp(word, "minlen=", 7)) { end = (char *)word + 7; - ret = kstrtoul(end, 10, (unsigned long *)&j); + ret = kstrtouint(end, 10, &j); if (ret || j > TFMINPKTSIZE_M) goto inval; tp.min_len = j; @@ -1453,7 +1454,7 @@ inval: count = -EINVAL; } if (*word == '@') { end = (char *)word + 1; - ret = kstrtoul(end, 10, (unsigned long *)&j); + ret = kstrtouint(end, 10, &j); if (*end && *end != '\n') goto inval; if (j & 7) /* doesn't start at multiple of 8 */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html