diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index daa8164523c3..24386c24b804 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: c4f99a2b8fb4c564865f0037a2b7be690d4409f3
+refs/heads/master: e3cd9528af4d1fd404eefe16e52ae421f99a7817
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c b/trunk/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c
index ab5b87a81677..5cb79d94a990 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/hwmon/lm75.c
@@ -103,7 +103,12 @@ static ssize_t set_temp(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *da,
 	struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
 	struct lm75_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
 	int nr = attr->index;
-	long temp = simple_strtol(buf, NULL, 10);
+	long temp;
+	int error;
+
+	error = strict_strtol(buf, 10, &temp);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
 
 	mutex_lock(&data->update_lock);
 	data->temp[nr] = LM75_TEMP_TO_REG(temp);