This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup
to the 3.0-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:
x86-microcode-microcode_core.c-simple_strtoul-cleanup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From e826abd523913f63eb03b59746ffb16153c53dc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 11:11:04 -0600
Subject: x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup
From: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
commit e826abd523913f63eb03b59746ffb16153c53dc4 upstream.
Change reload_for_cpu() in kernel/microcode_core.c to call kstrtoul()
instead of calling obsoleted simple_strtoul().
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336324264.2897.9.camel@lorien2
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
@@ -298,12 +298,11 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct sys_d
{
unsigned long val;
int cpu = dev->id;
- int ret = 0;
- char *end;
+ ssize_t ret = 0;
- val = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 0);
- if (end == buf)
- return -EINVAL;
+ ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &val);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
if (val == 1) {
get_online_cpus();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/x86-microcode-microcode_core.c-simple_strtoul-cleanup.patch
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