On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:19:10 +0530
Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +/*
> + * Wrapper over simple_strtol (base 10) with sanity and range checking.
> + * We return (signed) long only because we may want to return errors.
> + * Do not use this to convert numbers that are allowed to be negative.
> + */
> +static long strtol10_check_range(const char *cp, long min, long max)
> +{
> + long ret;
> + char *p = (char *) cp;
> +
> + WARN_ON(min < 0);
> + WARN_ON(max < min);
> +
> + ret = simple_strtol(p, &p, 10);
> +
> + if (*p && (*p != '\n')) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "netconsole: invalid input\n");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + if ((ret < min) || (ret > max)) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "netconsole: input %ld must be between "
> + "%ld and %ld\n", ret, min, max);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
There's probably other code around the place which does this. It might
be worth making this function a general-purpose thing.
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