Cannot modify /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/sequential_cutoff

It looks like d_strtoi_h was replaced by sysfs_strtoul_clamp in February of 2019 ([09/19] bcache: fix input overflow to sequential_cutoff - Patchwork).

Following the call stack of sysfs_strtoul_clamp appears to lead to _parse_integer:

_parse_integer has the comment “Don’t you dare use this function” and appears to stop parsing at any value outside of the range 0-f. It doesn’t appear to handle “M”.

/*
 * Convert non-negative integer string representation in explicitly given radix
 * to an integer.
 * Return number of characters consumed maybe or-ed with overflow bit.
 * If overflow occurs, result integer (incorrect) is still returned.
 *
 * Don't you dare use this function.
 */
unsigned int _parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *p)
{
	unsigned long long res;
	unsigned int rv;

	res = 0;
	rv = 0;
	while (1) {
		unsigned int c = *s;
		unsigned int lc = c | 0x20; /* don't tolower() this line */
		unsigned int val;

		if ('0' <= c && c <= '9')
			val = c - '0';
		else if ('a' <= lc && lc <= 'f')
			val = lc - 'a' + 10;
		else
			break;

		if (val >= base)
			break;
		/*
		 * Check for overflow only if we are within range of
		 * it in the max base we support (16)
		 */
		if (unlikely(res & (~0ull << 60))) {
			if (res > div_u64(ULLONG_MAX - val, base))
				rv |= KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW;
		}
		res = res * base + val;
		rv++;
		s++;
	}
	*p = res;
	return rv;
}

Since “M” is unparsed, The calling function (_kstrtoull) sees that there is still data in the string (*s) and returns “EINVAL”:

static int _kstrtoull(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res)
{
	unsigned long long _res;
	unsigned int rv;

	s = _parse_integer_fixup_radix(s, &base);
	rv = _parse_integer(s, base, &_res);
	if (rv & KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW)
		return -ERANGE;
	if (rv == 0)
		return -EINVAL;
	s += rv;
	if (*s == '\n')
		s++;
	if (*s)
		return -EINVAL;
	*res = _res;
	return 0;
}

P.S. As a workaround, it looks like there is a numfmt command that will do the conversion for you:

[/home/gregory]$ numfmt --from=iec 64M
67108864