LLVM implemented a recent "libcall optimization" that lowers calls to
`sprintf(dest, "%s", str)` where the return value is used to
`stpcpy(dest, str) - dest`. This generally avoids the machinery involved
in parsing format strings. Calling `sprintf` with overlapping arguments
was clarified in ISO C99 and POSIX.1-2001 to be undefined behavior.
`stpcpy` is just like `strcpy` except it returns the pointer to the new
tail of `dest`. This allows you to chain multiple calls to `stpcpy` in
one statement.
`stpcpy` was first standardized in POSIX.1-2008.
Implement this so that we don't observe linkage failures due to missing
symbol definitions for `stpcpy`.
Similar to last year's fire drill with:
commit 5f074f3e192f ("lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp")
This optimization was introduced into clang-12.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47162
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1126
Link: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/stpcpy.3.html
Link: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stpcpy.html
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85963
Suggested-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes V2:
* Added Sami's Tested by; though the patch changed implementation, the
missing symbol at link time was the problem Sami was observing.
* Fix __restrict -> __restrict__ typo as per Joe.
* Drop note about restrict from commit message as per Arvind.
* Fix NULL -> NUL as per Arvind; NUL is ASCII '\0'. TIL
* Fix off by one error as per Arvind; I had another off by one error in
my test program that was masking this.
include/linux/string.h | 3 +++
lib/string.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index b1f3894a0a3e..7686dbca8582 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ size_t strlcpy(char *, const char *, size_t);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSCPY
ssize_t strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t);
#endif
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STPCPY
+extern char *stpcpy(char *__restrict__, const char *__restrict__);
+#endif
/* Wraps calls to strscpy()/memset(), no arch specific code required */
ssize_t strscpy_pad(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count);
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 6012c385fb31..68ddbffbbd58 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -272,6 +272,29 @@ ssize_t strscpy_pad(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strscpy_pad);
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STPCPY
+/**
+ * stpcpy - copy a string from src to dest returning a pointer to the new end
+ * of dest, including src's NUL terminator. May overrun dest.
+ * @dest: pointer to end of string being copied into. Must be large enough
+ * to receive copy.
+ * @src: pointer to the beginning of string being copied from. Must not overlap
+ * dest.
+ *
+ * stpcpy differs from strcpy in two key ways:
+ * 1. inputs must not overlap.
+ * 2. return value is the new NULL terminated character. (for strcpy, the
+ * return value is a pointer to src.
+ */
+#undef stpcpy
+char *stpcpy(char *__restrict__ dest, const char *__restrict__ src)
+{
+ while ((*dest++ = *src++) != '\0')
+ /* nothing */;
+ return --dest;
+}
+#endif
+
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCAT
/**
* strcat - Append one %NUL-terminated string to another
--
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