Replace the use of atoi which is used for pattern parsing currently with
strtol.  Atoi won't parse sedecimal pattern values (it always returns 0),
but qemu-iotests use such pattern values.  Also reject every pattern
that is not a unsigned char as we pass the pattern to memset which
expect a bye value (despite having the pattern argument declared as int).

Based on an earlier patch by Stefan Weil which did not include the
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>