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authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>2014-10-14 00:54:25 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-14 02:18:23 +0200
commitcd514e727b18ff4d189b8e268db13729a4175091 (patch)
treefd860bbdc5e6e7d884196bccabbfd4d42240e116 /lib/string.c
parentarch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c: fix unused symbol warning (diff)
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lib/string.c: remove duplicated function
lib/string.c contains two functions, strnicmp and strncasecmp, which do roughly the same thing, namely compare two strings case-insensitively up to a given bound. They have slightly different implementations, but the only important difference is that strncasecmp doesn't handle len==0 appropriately; it effectively becomes strcasecmp in that case. strnicmp correctly says that two strings are always equal in their first 0 characters. strncasecmp is the POSIX name for this functionality. So rename the non-broken function to the standard name. To minimize the impact on the rest of the kernel (and since both are exported to modules), make strnicmp a wrapper for strncasecmp. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--lib/string.c27
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index f3c6ff596414..3181e267a033 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNICMP
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP
/**
- * strnicmp - Case insensitive, length-limited string comparison
+ * strncasecmp - Case insensitive, length-limited string comparison
* @s1: One string
* @s2: The other string
* @len: the maximum number of characters to compare
*/
-int strnicmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
+int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
{
/* Yes, Virginia, it had better be unsigned */
unsigned char c1, c2;
@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ int strnicmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
} while (--len);
return (int)c1 - (int)c2;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncasecmp);
+#endif
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNICMP
+int strnicmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
+{
+ return strncasecmp(s1, s2, len);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnicmp);
#endif
@@ -73,20 +80,6 @@ int strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcasecmp);
#endif
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP
-int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n)
-{
- int c1, c2;
-
- do {
- c1 = tolower(*s1++);
- c2 = tolower(*s2++);
- } while ((--n > 0) && c1 == c2 && c1 != 0);
- return c1 - c2;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncasecmp);
-#endif
-
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCPY
/**
* strcpy - Copy a %NUL terminated string