These helpers take care of NULL transparently and will be useful to avoid explicit NULL checks in follow-up commits. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/string.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/string.h b/include/string.h index 43911b75762f..71810180b5ba 100644 --- a/include/string.h +++ b/include/string.h @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #define __STRING_H #include <linux/string.h> +#include <linux/minmax.h> void *mempcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count); int strtobool(const char *str, int *val); @@ -20,4 +21,14 @@ char *parse_assignment(char *str); int strverscmp(const char *a, const char *b); +static inline int strcmp_ptr(const char *a, const char *b) +{ + return a && b ? strcmp(a, b) : compare3(a, b); +} + +static inline bool streq_ptr(const char *a, const char *b) +{ + return strcmp_ptr(a, b) == 0; +} + #endif /* __STRING_H */ -- 2.39.2