This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
params: lift param_set_uint_minmax to common code
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
params-lift-param_set_uint_minmax-to-common-code.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 96f29f134760042c04d07e3ed92a6b9d4dc6aaf6
Author: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jun 16 14:19:33 2021 -0700
params: lift param_set_uint_minmax to common code
[ Upstream commit 2a14c9ae15a38148484a128b84bff7e9ffd90d68 ]
It is a useful helper hence move it to common code so others can enjoy
it.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 3ebc46ca8675 ("tcp: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dctcp_update_alpha().")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 5ba250d9172ac..4d5a851cafe8b 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@ extern int param_get_int(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp);
extern const struct kernel_param_ops param_ops_uint;
extern int param_set_uint(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp);
extern int param_get_uint(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp);
+int param_set_uint_minmax(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp,
+ unsigned int min, unsigned int max);
#define param_check_uint(name, p) __param_check(name, p, unsigned int)
extern const struct kernel_param_ops param_ops_long;
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 8e56f8b12d8f7..b638476d12de1 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -242,6 +242,24 @@ STANDARD_PARAM_DEF(long, long, "%li", kstrtol);
STANDARD_PARAM_DEF(ulong, unsigned long, "%lu", kstrtoul);
STANDARD_PARAM_DEF(ullong, unsigned long long, "%llu", kstrtoull);
+int param_set_uint_minmax(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp,
+ unsigned int min, unsigned int max)
+{
+ unsigned int num;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!val)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ ret = kstrtouint(val, 0, &num);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ if (num < min || num > max)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ *((unsigned int *)kp->arg) = num;
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(param_set_uint_minmax);
+
int param_set_charp(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp)
{
if (strlen(val) > 1024) {
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
index 3095442b03822..39d0a3c434829 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -3302,24 +3302,6 @@ void cleanup_socket_xprt(void)
xprt_unregister_transport(&xs_bc_tcp_transport);
}
-static int param_set_uint_minmax(const char *val,
- const struct kernel_param *kp,
- unsigned int min, unsigned int max)
-{
- unsigned int num;
- int ret;
-
- if (!val)
- return -EINVAL;
- ret = kstrtouint(val, 0, &num);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- if (num < min || num > max)
- return -EINVAL;
- *((unsigned int *)kp->arg) = num;
- return 0;
-}
-
static int param_set_portnr(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp)
{
return param_set_uint_minmax(val, kp,
