Dan Carpenter wrote:
> You can't use kstrtoul() with an int or it causes memory corruption.
> Also j should be unsigned or we have underflow bugs.
>
> I considered changing "j" to unsigned long but everything fits in a u32.
Excuse me, but kstrtouint()'s last argument is not "u32 *" but "unsigned int *".
Aren't there architectures where sizeof(unsigned int) > sizeof(u32) ?
>
> Fixes: 8e3d04fd7d70 ('cxgb4: Add MPS tracing support')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
> index 1732e29..0a87a32 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
> @@ -1289,13 +1289,14 @@ static unsigned int xdigit2int(unsigned char c)
> static ssize_t mps_trc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> size_t count, loff_t *pos)
> {
> - int i, j, enable, ret;
> + int i, enable, ret;
> u32 *data, *mask;
> struct trace_params tp;
> const struct inode *ino;
> unsigned int trcidx;
> char *s, *p, *word, *end;
> struct adapter *adap;
> + u32 j;
>
> ino = file_inode(file);
> trcidx = (uintptr_t)ino->i_private & 3;
> @@ -1340,7 +1341,7 @@ static ssize_t mps_trc_write(struct file *file, const
> char __user *buf,
>
> if (!strncmp(word, "qid=", 4)) {
> end = (char *)word + 4;
> - ret = kstrtoul(end, 10, (unsigned long *)&j);
> + ret = kstrtouint(end, 10, &j);
> if (ret)
> goto out;
> if (!adap->trace_rss) {
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