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The function simple_strtoul performs no error checking in scenarios where the input value overflows the intended output variable. This results in this function successfully returning, even when the output does not match the input string (aka the function returns successfully even when the result is wrong). Or as it was mentioned [1], "...simple_strtol(), simple_strtoll(), simple_strtoul(), and simple_strtoull() functions explicitly ignore overflows, which may lead to unexpected results in callers." Hence, the use of those functions is discouraged. This patch replaces all uses of the simple_strtoul with the safer alternatives kstrtoint and kstrtol. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#simple-strtol-simple-strtoll-simple-strtoul-simple-strtoull Signed-off-by: Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira@hotmail.com> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> [nir: style fixes] Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241028192100.GB918454@lichtman.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.