[SRU][J:linux-bluefield][PATCH v1 4/4] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Use kstrtobool() to check 0/1 input

Chris Babroski cbabroski at nvidia.com
Wed Sep 10 19:49:14 UTC 2025


From: Shravan Kumar Ramani <shravankr at nvidia.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2121550

For setting the enable value, the input should be 0 or 1 only. Use
kstrtobool() in place of kstrtoint() in mlxbf_pmc_enable_store() to
accept only valid input.

Fixes: 423c3361855c ("platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Add support for BlueField-3")
Signed-off-by: Shravan Kumar Ramani <shravankr at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Thompson <davthompson at nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2ee618c59976bcf1379d5ddce2fc60ab5014b3a9.1751380187.git.shravankr@nvidia.com
[ij: split kstrbool() change to own commit.]
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen at linux.intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0e2cebd72321caeef84b6ba7084e85be0287fb4b)
Signed-off-by: Chris Babroski <cbabroski at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c
index 5d0a831e48e0..2e5f058a9ecd 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c
@@ -1911,13 +1911,14 @@ static ssize_t mlxbf_pmc_enable_store(struct device *dev,
 {
 	struct mlxbf_pmc_attribute *attr_enable = container_of(
 		attr, struct mlxbf_pmc_attribute, dev_attr);
-	unsigned int en, blk_num;
+	unsigned int blk_num;
 	u32 word;
 	int err;
+	bool en;
 
 	blk_num = attr_enable->nr;
 
-	err = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &en);
+	err = kstrtobool(buf, &en);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 
@@ -1937,14 +1938,11 @@ static ssize_t mlxbf_pmc_enable_store(struct device *dev,
 			MLXBF_PMC_CRSPACE_PERFMON_CTL(pmc->block[blk_num].counters),
 			MLXBF_PMC_WRITE_REG_32, word);
 	} else {
-		if (en && en != 1)
-			return -EINVAL;
-
 		err = mlxbf_pmc_config_l3_counters(blk_num, false, !!en);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 
-		if (en == 1) {
+		if (en) {
 			err = mlxbf_pmc_config_l3_counters(blk_num, true, false);
 			if (err)
 				return err;
-- 
2.34.1




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