It's more useful to return the pointer to the string itself with strreplace(), so it may be used like attr->name = strreplace(name, '/', '_'); While at it, amend the kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/string.h | 2 +- lib/string_helpers.c | 12 ++++++++---- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index c062c581a98b..dbfc66400050 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static inline void memcpy_flushcache(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt) #endif void *memchr_inv(const void *s, int c, size_t n); -char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new); +char *strreplace(char *str, char old, char new); extern void kfree_const(const void *x); diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c index 230020a2e076..d3b1dd718daf 100644 --- a/lib/string_helpers.c +++ b/lib/string_helpers.c @@ -979,18 +979,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sysfs_match_string); /** * strreplace - Replace all occurrences of character in string. - * @s: The string to operate on. + * @str: The string to operate on. * @old: The character being replaced. * @new: The character @old is replaced with. * - * Returns pointer to the nul byte at the end of @s. + * Replaces the each @old character with a @new one in the given string @str. + * + * Return: pointer to the string @str itself. */ -char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new) +char *strreplace(char *str, char old, char new) { + char *s = str; + for (; *s; ++s) if (*s == old) *s = new; - return s; + return str; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(strreplace); -- 2.40.0.1.gaa8946217a0b