Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - KASAN updates

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

 - some binfmt_elf changes

 - various misc bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (115 commits)
  kernel/exit.c: avoid undefined behaviour when calling wait4()
  kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info
  binfmt_elf: safely increment argv pointers
  s390: reduce ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
  powerpc: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4GB / 4MB
  arm64: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4GB / 4MB
  arm: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4MB
  binfmt_elf: use ELF_ET_DYN_BASE only for PIE
  fs, epoll: short circuit fetching events if thread has been killed
  checkpatch: improve multi-line alignment test
  checkpatch: improve macro reuse test
  checkpatch: change format of --color argument to --color[=WHEN]
  checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings
  checkpatch: improve tests for multiple line function definitions
  checkpatch: remove false warning for commit reference
  checkpatch: fix stepping through statements with $stat and ctx_statement_block
  checkpatch: [HLP]LIST_HEAD is also declaration
  checkpatch: warn when a MAINTAINERS entry isn't [A-Z]:\t
  checkpatch: improve the unnecessary OOM message test
  lib/bsearch.c: micro-optimize pivot position calculation
  ...

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
index bf85e05ce858..720144075c1e 100644
--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -51,13 +51,15 @@ unsigned int _parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long
 
 	res = 0;
 	rv = 0;
-	while (*s) {
+	while (1) {
+		unsigned int c = *s;
+		unsigned int lc = c | 0x20; /* don't tolower() this line */
 		unsigned int val;
 
-		if ('0' <= *s && *s <= '9')
-			val = *s - '0';
-		else if ('a' <= _tolower(*s) && _tolower(*s) <= 'f')
-			val = _tolower(*s) - 'a' + 10;
+		if ('0' <= c && c <= '9')
+			val = c - '0';
+		else if ('a' <= lc && lc <= 'f')
+			val = lc - 'a' + 10;
 		else
 			break;