The patch titled Subject: lib/string: add strnchrnul() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-string-add-strnchrnul.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-string-add-strnchrnul.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-string-add-strnchrnul.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/string: add strnchrnul() Patch series "lib: rework bitmap_parse", v5. Similarl to the recently revisited bitmap_parselist(), bitmap_parse() is ineffective and overcomplicated. This series reworks it, aligns its interface with bitmap_parselist() and makes it simpler to use. The series also adds a test for the function and fixes usage of it in cpumask_parse() according to the new design - drops the calculating of length of an input string. bitmap_parse() takes the array of numbers to be put into the map in the BE order which is reversed to the natural LE order for bitmaps. For example, to construct bitmap containing a bit on the position 42, we have to put a line '400,0'. Current implementation reads chunk one by one from the beginning ('400' before '0') and makes bitmap shift after each successful parse. It makes the complexity of the whole process as O(n^2). We can do it in reverse direction ('0' before '400') and avoid shifting, but it requires reverse parsing helpers. This patch (of 7): New function works like strchrnul() with a length limited string. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200102043031.30357-2-yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/string.h | 1 + lib/string.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/string.h~lib-string-add-strnchrnul +++ a/include/linux/string.h @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ extern char * strchr(const char *,int); #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHRNUL extern char * strchrnul(const char *,int); #endif +extern char * strnchrnul(const char *, size_t, int); #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCHR extern char * strnchr(const char *, size_t, int); #endif --- a/lib/string.c~lib-string-add-strnchrnul +++ a/lib/string.c @@ -434,6 +434,23 @@ char *strchrnul(const char *s, int c) EXPORT_SYMBOL(strchrnul); #endif +/** + * strnchrnul - Find and return a character in a length limited string, + * or end of string + * @s: The string to be searched + * @count: The number of characters to be searched + * @c: The character to search for + * + * Returns pointer to the first occurrence of 'c' in s. If c is not found, + * then return a pointer to the last character of the string. + */ +char *strnchrnul(const char *s, size_t count, int c) +{ + while (count-- && *s && *s != (char)c) + s++; + return (char *)s; +} + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR /** * strrchr - Find the last occurrence of a character in a string _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx are lib-string-add-strnchrnul.patch bitops-more-bits_to_-macros.patch lib-add-test-for-bitmap_parse.patch lib-add-test-for-bitmap_parse-fix.patch lib-make-bitmap_parse_user-a-wrapper-on-bitmap_parse.patch lib-rework-bitmap_parse.patch lib-new-testcases-for-bitmap_parse_user.patch cpumask-dont-calculate-length-of-the-input-string.patch