On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:09:37AM +0200, Eldad Zack wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I am not sure if I understand _parse_integer correctly (which is called > > to do the actual parsing and has a very nice comment to it) - but it > > expects a null-terminated string, but will also stop as soon as it > > bumps into any other non-number character without error (please correct > > me I'm wrong). > > I believe it, but, in _kstrtoull: > > rv = _parse_integer(s, base, &_res); > if (rv & KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW) > return -ERANGE; > rv &= ~KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW; > if (rv == 0) > return -EINVAL; > s += rv; > if (*s == '\n') > s++; > if (*s) > return -EINVAL; > > So actually it appears the string must be all numeric except possibly a final > newline.
Ah. You're right of course. Thanks! I also noticed I missed the SGML templates, so I'll resend this at some point later. Eldad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
