Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant

From: Frank Rowand
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 18:19:12 EST


On 5/13/2014 7:58 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> The strchrnul() variant helpfully returns a the end of the string
> instead of a NULL if the requested character is not found. This can
> simplify string parsing code since it doesn't need to expicitly check
> for a NULL return. If a valid string pointer is passed in, then a valid
> null terminated string will always come back out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/string.h | 3 +++
> lib/string.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
> index ac889c5ea11b..d36977e029af 100644
> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ extern int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n);
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHR
> extern char * strchr(const char *,int);
> #endif
> +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHRNUL
> +extern char * strchrnul(const char *,int);
> +#endif
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCHR
> extern char * strnchr(const char *, size_t, int);
> #endif
> diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
> index 9b1f9062a202..059636f92c26 100644
> --- a/lib/string.c
> +++ b/lib/string.c
> @@ -301,6 +301,21 @@ char *strchr(const char *s, int c)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(strchr);
> #endif
>
> +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHRNUL
> +/**
> + * strchr - Find the first occurrence of a character in a string

s/strchr/strchrnul/

Add to the end of the description: if c is not found in s then return
a pointer to the null byte at the end of s

> + * @s: The string to be searched
> + * @c: The character to search for
> + */
> +char *strchrnul(const char *s, int c)
> +{
> + while (*s && *s != (char)c)
> + s++;
> + return (char *)s;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(strchrnul);
> +#endif
> +
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR
> /**
> * strrchr - Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
>

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