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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/string.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/string.c | 20 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index 7927b875f80c..6ab0a6fa512e 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ extern void * memscan(void *,int,__kernel_size_t); #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP extern int memcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t); #endif +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_BCMP +extern int bcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t); +#endif #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCHR extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t); #endif diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 38e4ca08e757..3ab861c1a857 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -866,6 +866,26 @@ __visible int memcmp(const void *cs, const void *ct, size_t count) EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcmp); #endif +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_BCMP +/** + * bcmp - returns 0 if and only if the buffers have identical contents. + * @a: pointer to first buffer. + * @b: pointer to second buffer. + * @len: size of buffers. + * + * The sign or magnitude of a non-zero return value has no particular + * meaning, and architectures may implement their own more efficient bcmp(). So + * while this particular implementation is a simple (tail) call to memcmp, do + * not rely on anything but whether the return value is zero or non-zero. + */ +#undef bcmp +int bcmp(const void *a, const void *b, size_t len) +{ + return memcmp(a, b, len); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bcmp); +#endif + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSCAN /** * memscan - Find a character in an area of memory. |