My patch to pagemap clear_refs

I posted one trivial patch to fix the user input and got accepted in Andrew Morton's mm test tree, Oh yeah, This is my first kernel patch and it got accepted, that is encouraging and making me feel contributing more :-)

http://marc.info/?t=125011994400002&r=1&w=2

    fs/proc/task_mmu.c v1: fix clear_refs_write() input sanity check

    v1 fix the compiling errors and keep the type variable name.

    Andrew Morton pointed out similar string hacking and obfuscated check for zero-length input
    at the end of the function, David Rientjes suggested to use strict_strtol to replace
    simple_strtol, this patch cover above suggestions, add removing of leading and trailing
    whitespace from user input. It does not change function behavious.

    This patch is rebased on mmotm-2009-08-04-14-22.

    Signed-off-by: Vincent Li 

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index f884ad4..2a1bef9 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -492,21 +492,20 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
                                size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
        struct task_struct *task;
-       char buffer[PROC_NUMBUF], *end;
+       char buffer[PROC_NUMBUF];
        struct mm_struct *mm;
        struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-       int type;
+       long type;

        memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
        if (count > sizeof(buffer) - 1)
                count = sizeof(buffer) - 1;
        if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count))
                return -EFAULT;
-       type = simple_strtol(buffer, &end, 0);
+       if (strict_strtol(strstrip(buffer), 10, &type))
+               return -EINVAL;
        if (type < CLEAR_REFS_ALL || type > CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED)
                return -EINVAL;
-       if (*end == '\n')
-               end++;
        task = get_proc_task(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
        if (!task)
                return -ESRCH;
@@ -542,9 +541,8 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
                mmput(mm);
        }
        put_task_struct(task);
-       if (end - buffer == 0)
-               return -EIO;
-       return end - buffer;
+
+       return count;
 }

 const struct file_operations proc_clear_refs_operations = {