diff --git a/editors/patch.c b/editors/patch.c
index 980c37f40..f28395397 100644
--- a/editors/patch.c
+++ b/editors/patch.c
@@ -3,21 +3,7 @@
  *  busybox patch applet to handle the unified diff format.
  *  Copyright (C) 2003 Glenn McGrath <bug1@iinet.net.au>
  *
- *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- *  (at your option) any later version.
- *
- *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- *  GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- *
- *
+ *  Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  *
  *  This applet is written to work with patches generated by GNU diff,
  *  where there is equivalent functionality busybox patch shall behave
@@ -113,16 +99,15 @@ extern int patch_main(int argc, char **argv)
 		char *p, *i;
 		ret = bb_getopt_ulflags(argc, argv, "p:i:", &p, &i);
 		if (ret & 1)
-			patch_level = bb_xgetularg10_bnd(p, -1, USHRT_MAX);
+			patch_level = atoi(p);
 		if (ret & 2) {
 			patch_file = bb_xfopen(i, "r");
+		} else {
+			patch_file = stdin;
 		}
 		ret = 0;
 	}
 
-	if (!patch_file)
-		patch_file = stdin;
-
 	patch_line = bb_get_line_from_file(patch_file);
 	while (patch_line) {
 		FILE *src_stream;
@@ -174,7 +159,8 @@ extern int patch_main(int argc, char **argv)
 			strcpy(backup_filename, new_filename);
 			strcat(backup_filename, ".orig");
 			if (rename(new_filename, backup_filename) == -1) {
-				bb_perror_msg_and_die("Couldnt create file %s", backup_filename);
+				bb_perror_msg_and_die("Couldnt create file %s",
+						backup_filename);
 			}
 			dst_stream = bb_xfopen(new_filename, "w");
 		}