The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: heartbeat: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is ocfs2-heartbeat-replace-simple_strtoul-with-kstrtoul.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-heartbeat-replace-simple_strtoul-with-kstrtoul.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: heartbeat: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 13:52:18 -0800 simple_strtoul() is deprecated due to ignoring overflows and also requires clunkier error checking. Replacing with kstrtoul() leads to safer code and cleaner error checking. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241117215219.4012-1-danielyangkang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c~ocfs2-heartbeat-replace-simple_strtoul-with-kstrtoul +++ a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c @@ -1535,10 +1535,11 @@ static int o2hb_read_block_input(struct { unsigned long bytes; char *p = (char *)page; + int ret; - bytes = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 0); - if (!p || (*p && (*p != '\n'))) - return -EINVAL; + ret = kstrtoul(p, 0, &bytes); + if (ret) + return ret; /* Heartbeat and fs min / max block sizes are the same. */ if (bytes > 4096 || bytes < 512) @@ -1622,13 +1623,14 @@ static ssize_t o2hb_region_blocks_store( struct o2hb_region *reg = to_o2hb_region(item); unsigned long tmp; char *p = (char *)page; + int ret; if (reg->hr_bdev_file) return -EINVAL; - tmp = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 0); - if (!p || (*p && (*p != '\n'))) - return -EINVAL; + ret = kstrtoul(p, 0, &tmp); + if (ret) + return ret; if (tmp > O2NM_MAX_NODES || tmp == 0) return -ERANGE; @@ -2136,10 +2138,11 @@ static ssize_t o2hb_heartbeat_group_dead { unsigned long tmp; char *p = (char *)page; + int ret; - tmp = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 10); - if (!p || (*p && (*p != '\n'))) - return -EINVAL; + ret = kstrtoul(p, 10, &tmp); + if (ret) + return ret; /* this will validate ranges for us. */ o2hb_dead_threshold_set((unsigned int) tmp); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from danielyangkang@xxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-heartbeat-replace-simple_strtoul-with-kstrtoul.patch