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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c32
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index a2f14098663f..0073b09bb99f 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -815,10 +815,12 @@ ssize_t device_store_ulong(struct device *dev,
const char *buf, size_t size)
{
struct dev_ext_attribute *ea = to_ext_attr(attr);
- char *end;
- unsigned long new = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 0);
- if (end == buf)
- return -EINVAL;
+ int ret;
+ unsigned long new;
+
+ ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &new);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
*(unsigned long *)(ea->var) = new;
/* Always return full write size even if we didn't consume all */
return size;
@@ -839,9 +841,14 @@ ssize_t device_store_int(struct device *dev,
const char *buf, size_t size)
{
struct dev_ext_attribute *ea = to_ext_attr(attr);
- char *end;
- long new = simple_strtol(buf, &end, 0);
- if (end == buf || new > INT_MAX || new < INT_MIN)
+ int ret;
+ long new;
+
+ ret = kstrtol(buf, 0, &new);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ if (new > INT_MAX || new < INT_MIN)
return -EINVAL;
*(int *)(ea->var) = new;
/* Always return full write size even if we didn't consume all */
@@ -911,8 +918,7 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
else if (dev->class && dev->class->dev_release)
dev->class->dev_release(dev);
else
- WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() "
- "function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",
+ WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/kobject.txt.\n",
dev_name(dev));
kfree(p);
}
@@ -1088,8 +1094,14 @@ out:
static ssize_t uevent_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
- if (kobject_synth_uevent(&dev->kobj, buf, count))
+ int rc;
+
+ rc = kobject_synth_uevent(&dev->kobj, buf, count);
+
+ if (rc) {
dev_err(dev, "uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent\n");
+ return rc;
+ }
return count;
}