How convert a char[] string to int in the Linux kernel?

Question

How convert char[] to int in linux kernel

with validation that the text entered is actually an int?

int procfile_write(struct file *file, const char          


        

Answer 1

Because of the unavailability of a lot of common function/macros in linux kernel, you can not use any direct function to get integer value from a string buffer.

This is the code that I have been using for a long time for doing this and it can be used on all *NIX flavors (probably without any modification).

This is the modified form of code, which I used a long time back from an open source project (don't remember the name now).

#define ISSPACE(c)  ((c) == ' ' || ((c) >= '\t' && (c) <= '\r'))
#define ISASCII(c)  (((c) & ~0x7f) == 0)
#define ISUPPER(c)  ((c) >= 'A' && (c) <= 'Z')
#define ISLOWER(c)  ((c) >= 'a' && (c) <= 'z')
#define ISALPHA(c)  (ISUPPER(c) || ISLOWER(c))
#define ISDIGIT(c)  ((c) >= '0' && (c) <= '9')

unsigned long mystr_toul (
    char*   nstr,
    char**  endptr,
    int base)
{
#if !(defined(__KERNEL__))
    return strtoul (nstr, endptr, base);    /* user mode */

#else
    char* s = nstr;
    unsigned long acc;
    unsigned char c;
    unsigned long cutoff;
    int neg = 0, any, cutlim;

    do
    {
        c = *s++;
    } while (ISSPACE(c));

    if (c == '-')
    {
        neg = 1;
        c = *s++;
    }
    else if (c == '+')
        c = *s++;

    if ((base == 0 || base == 16) &&
        c == '0' && (*s == 'x' || *s == 'X'))
    {
        c = s[1];
        s += 2;
        base = 16;
    }
    if (base == 0)
        base = c == '0' ? 8 : 10;

    cutoff = (unsigned long)ULONG_MAX / (unsigned long)base;
    cutlim = (unsigned long)ULONG_MAX % (unsigned long)base;
    for (acc = 0, any = 0; ; c = *s++)
    {
        if (!ISASCII(c))
            break;
        if (ISDIGIT(c))
            c -= '0';
        else if (ISALPHA(c))
            c -= ISUPPER(c) ? 'A' - 10 : 'a' - 10;
        else
            break;

        if (c >= base)
            break;
        if (any < 0 || acc > cutoff || (acc == cutoff && c > cutlim))
            any = -1;
        else
        {
            any = 1;
            acc *= base;
            acc += c;
        }
    }

    if (any < 0)
    {
        acc = INT_MAX;
    }
    else if (neg)
        acc = -acc;
    if (endptr != 0)
        *((const char **)endptr) = any ? s - 1 : nstr;
    return (acc);
#endif
}