The patch titled Subject: kstrto*: accept "-0" for signed conversion has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: kstrto*: accept "-0" for signed conversion strtol(3) et al accept "-0", so should we. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/kstrtox.c | 2 +- lib/test-kstrtox.c | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/kstrtox.c~kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion lib/kstrtox.c --- a/lib/kstrtox.c~kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion +++ a/lib/kstrtox.c @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ int kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int rv = _kstrtoull(s + 1, base, &tmp); if (rv < 0) return rv; - if ((long long)(-tmp) >= 0) + if ((long long)-tmp > 0) return -ERANGE; *res = -tmp; } else { diff -puN lib/test-kstrtox.c~kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion lib/test-kstrtox.c --- a/lib/test-kstrtox.c~kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion +++ a/lib/test-kstrtox.c @@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ static void __init test_kstrtoll_ok(void {"4294967297", 10, 4294967297LL}, {"9223372036854775807", 10, 9223372036854775807LL}, + {"-0", 10, 0LL}, {"-1", 10, -1LL}, {"-2", 10, -2LL}, {"-9223372036854775808", 10, LLONG_MIN}, @@ -277,11 +278,6 @@ static void __init test_kstrtoll_fail(vo {"-9223372036854775809", 10}, {"-18446744073709551614", 10}, {"-18446744073709551615", 10}, - /* negative zero isn't an integer in Linux */ - {"-0", 0}, - {"-0", 8}, - {"-0", 10}, - {"-0", 16}, /* sign is first character if any */ {"-+1", 0}, {"-+1", 8}, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are kstrto-accept-0-for-signed-conversion.patch add-parse_integer-replacement-for-simple_strto.patch parse_integer-add-runtime-testsuite.patch parse-integer-rewrite-kstrto.patch parse_integer-convert-scanf.patch scanf-fix-type-range-overflow.patch parse_integer-convert-lib.patch parse_integer-convert-mm.patch parse_integer-convert-fs.patch parse_integer-convert-fs-cachefiles.patch parse_integer-convert-ext2-ext3-ext4.patch parse_integer-convert-fs-ocfs2.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html