strtou[l]l(3) silently converts negative numbers into positive. This
behavior is wrong: a negative value should be parsed as a negative
value, which would underflow unsigned (long) long, and so would return
the smallest possible value, 0, and set errno to ERANGE to report an
error.
Reviewed-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- Set errno = 0 before the call. Otherwise, it may contain anything.
- ERANGE is not the only possible errno value of these functions. They
can also set it to EINVAL.
- Any errno value after these calls is bad; just compare against 0.
- Don't check for the return value; just errno. This function is
guaranteed to not modify errno on success (POSIX).
- Check endptr == str, which may or may not set EINVAL.
Suggested-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
