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.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Li <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

fs/proc/task_mmu.c

@@ -473,21 +473,20 @@ 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;
@@ -523,9 +522,8 @@ 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 = {