kstrtoul() assumes the string contains the number only and is \0 terminated, this is not the case, as such things like: earlyprintk=xdbc1,keep go completely sideways. Use simple_strtoul() instead. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c +++ b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c @@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ int __init early_xdbc_parse_parameter(ch { unsigned long dbgp_num = 0; u32 bus, dev, func, offset; + char *e; int ret; if (!early_pci_allowed()) @@ -613,8 +614,11 @@ int __init early_xdbc_parse_parameter(ch if (xdbc.xdbc_reg) return 0; - if (*s && kstrtoul(s, 0, &dbgp_num)) - dbgp_num = 0; + if (*s) { + dbgp_num = simple_strtoul(s, &e, 10); + if (s == e) + dbgp_num = 0; + } pr_notice("dbgp_num: %lu\n", dbgp_num);