FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Revert "kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint"" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

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thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 8b92c4ff4423aa9900cf838d3294fcade4dbda35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matteo Croce <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:52:02 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint"

Patch series "fix parsing of reboot= cmdline", v3.

The parsing of the reboot= cmdline has two major errors:

- a missing bound check can crash the system on reboot

- parsing of the cpu number only works if specified last

Fix both.

This patch (of 2):

This reverts commit 616feab753972b97.

kstrtoint() and simple_strtoul() have a subtle difference which makes them non interchangeable: if a non digit character is found amid the parsing, the former will return an error, while the latter will just stop parsing, e.g. simple_strtoul("123xyx") = 123.

The kernel cmdline reboot= argument allows to specify the CPU used for rebooting, with the syntax s#### among the other flags, e.g. "reboot=warm,s31,force", so if this flag is not the last given, it's silently ignored as well as the subsequent ones.

index e7b78d5ae1ab..8fbba433725e 100644
@@ -551,22 +551,15 @@ static int __init reboot_setup(char *str)
 			break;
 
 		case 's':
-		{
-			int rc;
-
-			if (isdigit(*(str+1))) {
-				rc = kstrtoint(str+1, 0, &reboot_cpu);
-				if (rc)
-					return rc;
-			} else if (str[1] == 'm' && str[2] == 'p' &&
-				   isdigit(*(str+3))) {
-				rc = kstrtoint(str+3, 0, &reboot_cpu);
-				if (rc)
-					return rc;
-			} else
+			if (isdigit(*(str+1)))
+				reboot_cpu = simple_strtoul(str+1, NULL, 0);
+			else if (str[1] == 'm' && str[2] == 'p' &&
+							isdigit(*(str+3)))
+				reboot_cpu = simple_strtoul(str+3, NULL, 0);
+			else
 				*mode = REBOOT_SOFT;
 			break;
-		}
+
 		case 'g':
 			*mode = REBOOT_GPIO;
 			break;