diff --git a/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dbll.c b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dbll.c
index c191ae203565..41e88abe47af 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dbll.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/tidspbridge/pmgr/dbll.c
@@ -1120,8 +1120,11 @@ static int dbll_rmm_alloc(struct dynamic_loader_allocate *this,
 	   or DYN_EXTERNAL, then mem granularity information is present
 	   within the section name - only process if there are at least three
 	   tokens within the section name (just a minor optimization) */
-	if (count >= 3)
-		strict_strtol(sz_last_token, 10, (long *)&req);
+	if (count >= 3) {
+		status = kstrtos32(sz_last_token, 10, &req);
+		if (status)
+			goto func_cont;
+	}
 
 	if ((req == 0) || (req == 1)) {
 		if (strcmp(sz_sec_last_token, "DYN_DARAM") == 0) {