badblocks: fix a possible bug in parse_uint
Currently, the parse_uint() function checks errno after the strtoul()
call. But, according to the man page of strtoul():
Since strtoul() can legitimately return 0 or LONG_MAX (LLONG_MAX for
strtoull()) on both success and failure, the calling program
should set errno to 0 before the call, and then determine if an error
occurred by checking whether errno has a nonzero value after the call.
When using locales, it can happen that looking for the locale files is
not successful, and therefore errno will have a nonzero value from this.
And since the argument parsing is one of the first things done after
startup, parse_uint() will wrongly report errors.
The fix is to simply reset errno to zero before calling strtoul().
Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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