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: 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 -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html