Patch "lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool

to the 4.4-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:
lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:22:57 -0700
Subject: lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool

From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

commit a81a5a17d44b26521fb1199f8ccf27f4af337a67 upstream.

Add support for "on" and "off" when converting to boolean.

---
 lib/kstrtox.c |   20 +++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtos8);
  * @s: input string
  * @res: result
  *
- * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
- * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value pointed to by res is
- * updated upon finding a match.
+ * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
+ * [oO][NnFf] for "on" and "off". Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value
+ * pointed to by res is updated upon finding a match.
  */
 int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
 {

@@ -346,6 +346,20 @@ int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
 	case '0':
 		*res = false;
 		return 0;
+	case 'o':
+	case 'O':
+		switch (s[1]) {
+		case 'n':
+		case 'N':
+			*res = true;
+			return 0;
+		case 'f':
+		case 'F':
+			*res = false;
+			return 0;
+		default:
+			break;
+		}
 	default:
 		break;
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ovl-fix-info-leak-in-ovl_lookup_temp.patch queue-4.4/lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool.patch queue-4.4/pstore-ram-use-memcpy_toio-instead-of-memcpy.patch queue-4.4/pstore-core-drop-cmpxchg-based-updates.patch queue-4.4/pstore-ramoops-fixup-driver-removal.patch queue-4.4/lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool.patch queue-4.4/pstore-ram-use-memcpy_fromio-to-save-old-buffer.patch queue-4.4/lib-move-strtobool-to-kstrtobool.patch