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

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 8b92c4ff4423aa9900cf838d3294fcade4dbda35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
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.

Fixes: 616feab75397 ("kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint")
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201103214025.116799-2-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/reboot.c b/kernel/reboot.c
index e7b78d5ae1ab..8fbba433725e 100644
--- a/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -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;