Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] trivial: PM / Hibernate: clean up checkpatch in hibernate.c

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Quoting Rafael J. Wysocki (2014-02-04 16:03:29)
> On Tuesday, February 04, 2014 03:22:22 PM Sebastian Capella wrote:
> > Quoting Sebastian Capella (2014-02-04 14:37:33)
> > > Quoting Rafael J. Wysocki (2014-02-04 13:36:29)
> > > > >  static int __init resumedelay_setup(char *str)
> > > > >  {
> > > > > -     resume_delay = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0);
> > > > > +     int ret = kstrtoint(str, 0, &resume_delay);
> > > > > +     /* mask must_check warn; on failure, leaves resume_delay unchanged */
> > > > > +     (void)ret;
> > 
> > One unintended consequence of this change is that it'll now accept a
> > negative integer parameter.
> 
> Well, what about using kstrtouint(), then?
I was thinking of doing something like:

	int delay, res;
	res = kstrtoint(str, 0, &delay);
	if (!res && delay >= 0)
		resume_delay = delay;
	return 1;

> Well, kstrtoint() is used in some security-sensitive places AFAICS, so it
> really is better to check its return value in general.  The __must_check
> reminds people about that.

Thanks!

Sebastian

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