diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
index d51c2f214875ebecc4ebda328b77f3b8047ffc17..9990320b6f9a7ee7edad9c41f988a4681c7e2018 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
@@ -410,24 +410,16 @@ efi_init (void)
 	efi_config_table_t *config_tables;
 	efi_char16_t *c16;
 	u64 efi_desc_size;
-	char *cp, *end, vendor[100] = "unknown";
+	char *cp, vendor[100] = "unknown";
 	extern char saved_command_line[];
 	int i;
 
 	/* it's too early to be able to use the standard kernel command line support... */
 	for (cp = saved_command_line; *cp; ) {
 		if (memcmp(cp, "mem=", 4) == 0) {
-			cp += 4;
-			mem_limit = memparse(cp, &end);
-			if (end != cp)
-				break;
-			cp = end;
+			mem_limit = memparse(cp + 4, &cp);
 		} else if (memcmp(cp, "max_addr=", 9) == 0) {
-			cp += 9;
-			max_addr = GRANULEROUNDDOWN(memparse(cp, &end));
-			if (end != cp)
-				break;
-			cp = end;
+			max_addr = GRANULEROUNDDOWN(memparse(cp + 9, &cp));
 		} else {
 			while (*cp != ' ' && *cp)
 				++cp;