This patch now allows the use of the proc interface to either activate
or deactivate call home on panic.
e.g. echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/callhome
strict_strtoul() requires _either_'\n\0' _or_ '\0' termination.
This was missing and therefore the interface did not recognise valid input.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Joachim Picht <hans@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
rc = copy_from_user(buf, buffer, sizeof(buf));
if (rc != 0)
return -EFAULT;
+ buf[len - 1] = '\0';
if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &val) != 0)
return -EINVAL;
if (val != 0 && val != 1)