The call to kstrtoul() will corrupt memory on 64 bit systems because an int is 4 bytes and a long is 8. Also it's not a good idea to let users trigger a dev_err() because it just ends up flooding /var/log/messages so I removed the printk. Fixes: 2ddd2086ea9c ('mfd: add Intel Broxton Whiskey Cove PMIC driver') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc.c b/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc.c index 40acaff..b942876 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc.c @@ -297,10 +297,9 @@ static ssize_t bxtwc_val_store(struct device *dev, unsigned int val; struct intel_soc_pmic *pmic = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - if (kstrtoul(buf, 0, (unsigned long *)&val)) { - dev_err(dev, "Invalid register value\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } + ret = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &val); + if (ret) + return ret; ret = regmap_write(pmic->regmap, bxtwc_reg_addr, val); if (ret) { -- 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