Use strchr() instead of strpbrk() when there is only 1 element in the set of characters to look for. This potentially saves a few cycles. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- On my machine, the diff of the .s file shows that the generated code is the same: -- drivers/md/dm-crypt.old.s 2023-01-28 16:28:08.968026902 +0100 ++ drivers/md/dm-crypt.s 2023-01-28 16:28:32.056027335 +0100 @@ -17950,7 +17950,7 @@ call __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp1 # testb %bl, %bl # _56 jne .L928 #, -# drivers/md/dm-crypt.c:2490: key_desc = strpbrk(key_string, ":"); +# drivers/md/dm-crypt.c:2490: key_desc = strchr(key_string, ':'); call __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc # movl $58, %esi #, movq %r12, %rdi # key_string, This is done thanks to fold_builtin_strpbrk() in gcc which already transforms such patterns. (https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/builtins.cc#L10238) --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c index 2653516bcdef..b9c41fd42e8a 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -2487,7 +2487,7 @@ static int crypt_set_keyring_key(struct crypt_config *cc, const char *key_string } /* look for next ':' separating key_type from key_description */ - key_desc = strpbrk(key_string, ":"); + key_desc = strchr(key_string, ':'); if (!key_desc || key_desc == key_string || !strlen(key_desc + 1)) return -EINVAL; -- 2.34.1