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 *buffer, unsigned long count,
       void *data)
{

   char procfs_buffer[PROCFS_MAX_SIZE];

    /* get buffer size */
   unsigned long procfs_buffer_size = count;
   if (procfs_buffer_size > PROCFS_MAX_SIZE ) {
       procfs_buffer_size = PROCFS_MAX_SIZE;
   }

   /* write data to the buffer */
   if ( copy_from_user(procfs_buffer, buffer, procfs_buffer_size) ) {
       return -EFAULT;
   }

   int = buffer2int(procfs_buffer, procfs_buffer_size);

   return procfs_buffer_size;
}

Answer 1

See the various incarnations of kstrtol() in #include <include/linux/kernel.h> in your friendly linux source tree.

Which one you need depends on whether the *buffer is a user or a kernel address, and on how strict your needs on error handling / checking of the buffer contents are (things like, is 123qx invalid or should it return 123 ?).