Quoting Aristeu Rozanski (a...@redhat.com):
> This patch converts the code to use kstrtou32() instead of simple_strtoul()
> which is deprecated. The real size of the variables are u32, so use kstrtou32
> instead of kstrtoul
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <a...@redhat.com>

phew, i'm afraid i'm not up on the latest 'best parsing techniques' 
but the end result looks correct (just not sure it's optimal).

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com>

> 
> ---
>  security/device_cgroup.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: github/security/device_cgroup.c
> ===================================================================
> --- github.orig/security/device_cgroup.c      2012-08-21 10:51:05.751689805 
> -0400
> +++ github/security/device_cgroup.c   2012-08-21 10:51:15.015951623 -0400
> @@ -361,8 +361,8 @@
>                                  int filetype, const char *buffer)
>  {
>       const char *b;
> -     char *endp;
> -     int count;
> +     char temp[12];          /* 11 + 1 characters needed for a u32 */
> +     int count, rc;
>       struct dev_whitelist_item wh;
>  
>       if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> @@ -405,8 +405,16 @@
>               wh.major = ~0;
>               b++;
>       } else if (isdigit(*b)) {
> -             wh.major = simple_strtoul(b, &endp, 10);
> -             b = endp;
> +             memset(temp, 0, sizeof(temp));
> +             for (count = 0; count < sizeof(temp) - 1; count++) {
> +                     temp[count] = *b;
> +                     b++;
> +                     if (!isdigit(*b))
> +                             break;
> +             }
> +             rc = kstrtou32(temp, 10, &wh.major);
> +             if (rc)
> +                     return -EINVAL;
>       } else {
>               return -EINVAL;
>       }
> @@ -419,8 +427,16 @@
>               wh.minor = ~0;
>               b++;
>       } else if (isdigit(*b)) {
> -             wh.minor = simple_strtoul(b, &endp, 10);
> -             b = endp;
> +             memset(temp, 0, sizeof(temp));
> +             for (count = 0; count < sizeof(temp) - 1; count++) {
> +                     temp[count] = *b;
> +                     b++;
> +                     if (!isdigit(*b))
> +                             break;
> +             }
> +             rc = kstrtou32(temp, 10, &wh.minor);
> +             if (rc)
> +                     return -EINVAL;
>       } else {
>               return -EINVAL;
>       }
> 
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