fix security issue for int conversion; remove sanity tests if clause

[amold1]

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 25.00000% with 3 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 76.32%. Comparing base (6b98fa2) to head (4b370fb). Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
internal/driver/controllerserver.go	25.00%	2 Missing and 1 partial :warning:

Additional details and impacted files

```diff @@ Coverage Diff @@ ## main #275 +/- ## ========================================== + Coverage 76.21% 76.32% +0.10% ========================================== Files 21 21 Lines 1619 1622 +3 ========================================== + Hits 1234 1238 +4 + Misses 288 286 -2 - Partials 97 98 +1 ```

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