The strscpy() API is intended to be used instead of strlcpy(),
and instead of most uses of strncpy().

- Unlike strlcpy(), it doesn't read from memory beyond (src + size).

- Unlike strlcpy() or strncpy(), the API provides an easy way to check
  for destination buffer overflow: an -E2BIG error return value.

- The provided implementation is robust in the face of the source
  buffer being asynchronously changed during the copy, unlike the
  current implementation of strlcpy().

- Unlike strncpy(), the destination buffer will be NUL-terminated
  if the string in the source buffer is too long.

- Also unlike strncpy(), the destination buffer will not be updated
  beyond the NUL termination, avoiding strncpy's behavior of zeroing
  the entire tail end of the destination buffer.  (A memset() after
  the strscpy() can be used if this behavior is desired.)

- The implementation should be reasonably performant on all
  platforms since it uses the asm/word-at-a-time.h API rather than
  simple byte copy.  Kernel-to-kernel string copy is not considered
  to be performance critical in any case.
Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>

Strings are sometimes sanitized by replacing a certain character (often
'/') by another (often '!').  In a few places, this is done the same way
Schlemiel the Painter would do it.  Others are slightly smarter but still
do multiple strchr() calls.  Introduce strreplace() to do this using a
single function call and a single pass over the string.

One would expect the return value to be one of three things: void, s, or
the number of replacements made.  I chose the fourth, returning a pointer
to the end of the string.  This is more likely to be useful (for example
allowing the caller to avoid a strlen call).
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In commit 0b053c95 ("lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead
of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR"), we made memzero_explicit() more robust in
case LTO would decide to inline memzero_explicit() and eventually
find out it could be elimiated as dead store.

While using barrier() works well for the case of gcc, recent efforts
from LLVMLinux people suggest to use llvm as an alternative to gcc,
and there, Stephan found in a simple stand-alone user space example
that llvm could nevertheless optimize and thus elimitate the memset().
A similar issue has been observed in the referenced llvm bug report,
which is regarded as not-a-bug.

Based on some experiments, icc is a bit special on its own, while it
doesn't seem to eliminate the memset(), it could do so with an own
implementation, and then result in similar findings as with llvm.

The fix in this patch now works for all three compilers (also tested
with more aggressive optimization levels). Arguably, in the current
kernel tree it's more of a theoretical issue, but imho, it's better
to be pedantic about it.

It's clearly visible with gcc/llvm though, with the below code: if we
would have used barrier() only here, llvm would have omitted clearing,
not so with barrier_data() variant:

  static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
  {
    memset(s, 0, count);
    barrier_data(s);
  }

  int main(void)
  {
    char buff[20];
    memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff));
    return 0;
  }

  $ gcc -O2 test.c
  $ gdb a.out
  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
   0x0000000000400400  <+0>: lea   -0x28(%rsp),%rax
   0x0000000000400405  <+5>: movq  $0x0,-0x28(%rsp)
   0x000000000040040e <+14>: movq  $0x0,-0x20(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400417 <+23>: movl  $0x0,-0x18(%rsp)
   0x000000000040041f <+31>: xor   %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400421 <+33>: retq
  End of assembler dump.

  $ clang -O2 test.c
  $ gdb a.out
  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
   0x00000000004004f0  <+0>: xorps  %xmm0,%xmm0
   0x00000000004004f3  <+3>: movaps %xmm0,-0x18(%rsp)
   0x00000000004004f8  <+8>: movl   $0x0,-0x8(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400500 <+16>: lea    -0x18(%rsp),%rax
   0x0000000000400505 <+21>: xor    %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400507 <+23>: retq
  End of assembler dump.

As gcc, clang, but also icc defines __GNUC__, it's sufficient to define
this in compiler-gcc.h only to be picked up. For a fallback or otherwise
unsupported compiler, we define it as a barrier. Similarly, for ecc which
does not support gcc inline asm.

Reference: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15495Reported-by: NStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Tested-by: NStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: mancha security <mancha1@zoho.com>
Cc: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(), as defined when using gcc, is insufficient to
ensure protection from dead store optimization.

For the random driver and crypto drivers, calls are emitted ...

  $ gdb vmlinux
  (gdb) disassemble memzero_explicit
  Dump of assembler code for function memzero_explicit:
    0xffffffff813a18b0 <+0>:	push   %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b1 <+1>:	mov    %rsi,%rdx
    0xffffffff813a18b4 <+4>:	xor    %esi,%esi
    0xffffffff813a18b6 <+6>:	mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b9 <+9>:	callq  0xffffffff813a7120 <memset>
    0xffffffff813a18be <+14>:	pop    %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18bf <+15>:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

  (gdb) disassemble extract_entropy
  [...]
    0xffffffff814a5009 <+313>:	mov    %r12,%rdi
    0xffffffff814a500c <+316>:	mov    $0xa,%esi
    0xffffffff814a5011 <+321>:	callq  0xffffffff813a18b0 <memzero_explicit>
    0xffffffff814a5016 <+326>:	mov    -0x48(%rbp),%rax
  [...]

... but in case in future we might use facilities such as LTO, then
OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() is not sufficient to protect gcc from a possible
eviction of the memset(). We have to use a compiler barrier instead.

Minimal test example when we assume memzero_explicit() would *not* be
a call, but would have been *inlined* instead:

  static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
  {
    memset(s, 0, count);
    <foo>
  }

  int main(void)
  {
    char buff[20];

    snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff) - 1, "test");
    printf("%s", buff);

    memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff));
    return 0;
  }

With <foo> := OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 <+36>:	callq  0x400410 <printf@plt>
   0x0000000000400469 <+41>:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x000000000040046b <+43>:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x000000000040046f <+47>:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

With <foo> := barrier():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 <+36>:	callq  0x400410 <printf@plt>
   0x0000000000400469 <+41>:	movq   $0x0,(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400471 <+49>:	movq   $0x0,0x8(%rsp)
   0x000000000040047a <+58>:	movl   $0x0,0x10(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400482 <+66>:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400484 <+68>:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x0000000000400488 <+72>:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

As can be seen, movq, movq, movl are being emitted inlined
via memset().

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/13764/
Fixes: d4c5efdb ("random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nmancha security <mancha1@zoho.com>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: NStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Instead of potentially passing over the string twice in case c is not
found, just keep track of the last occurrence.  According to
bloat-o-meter, this also cuts the generated code by a third (54 vs 36
bytes).  Oh, and we get rid of those 7-space indented lines.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Now that all in-tree users of strnicmp have been converted to
strncasecmp, the wrapper can be removed.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Lets improve the comment to add a note on when to use memzero_explicit()
for those not digging through the git logs. We don't want people to
pollute places with memzero_explicit() where it's not really necessary.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/4/190Suggested-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

zatimend has reported that in his environment (3.16/gcc4.8.3/corei7)
memset() calls which clear out sensitive data in extract_{buf,entropy,
entropy_user}() in random driver are being optimized away by gcc.

Add a helper memzero_explicit() (similarly as explicit_bzero() variants)
that can be used in such cases where a variable with sensitive data is
being cleared out in the end. Other use cases might also be in crypto
code. [ I have put this into lib/string.c though, as it's always built-in
and doesn't need any dependencies then. ]

Fixes kernel bugzilla: 82041

Reported-by: zatimend@hotmail.co.uk
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

The previous patch made strnicmp into a wrapper for strncasecmp.

This patch makes all in-tree users of strnicmp call strncasecmp
directly, while still making sure that the strnicmp symbol can be used
by out-of-tree modules.  It should be considered a temporary hack until
all in-tree callers have been converted.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

lib/string.c contains two functions, strnicmp and strncasecmp, which do
roughly the same thing, namely compare two strings case-insensitively up
to a given bound.  They have slightly different implementations, but the
only important difference is that strncasecmp doesn't handle len==0
appropriately; it effectively becomes strcasecmp in that case.  strnicmp
correctly says that two strings are always equal in their first 0
characters.

strncasecmp is the POSIX name for this functionality.  So rename the
non-broken function to the standard name.  To minimize the impact on the
rest of the kernel (and since both are exported to modules), make strnicmp
a wrapper for strncasecmp.
Signed-off-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It used to be an ad-hoc hack defined by the x86 version of
<asm/bitops.h> that enabled a couple of library routines to know whether
an integer multiply is faster than repeated shifts and additions.

This just makes it use the real Kconfig system instead, and makes x86
(which was the only architecture that did this) select the option.

NOTE! Even for x86, this really is kind of wrong.  If we cared, we would
probably not enable this for builds optimized for netburst (P4), where
shifts-and-adds are generally faster than multiplies.  This patch does
*not* change that kind of logic, though, it is purely a syntactic change
with no code changes.

This was triggered by the fact that we have other places that really
want to know "do I want to expand multiples by constants by hand or
not", particularly the hash generation code.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

For strncpy() and friends the source string may or may not have an actual
NUL character at the end.  The documentation is confusing in this because
it specifically mentions that you are passing a "NUL-terminated" string.
Wikipedia says that "C-string" is an alternative name we can use instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_stringSigned-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The strchrnul() variant helpfully returns a the end of the string
instead of a NULL if the requested character is not found. This can
simplify string parsing code since it doesn't need to expicitly check
for a NULL return. If a valid string pointer is passed in, then a valid
null terminated string will always come back out.
Signed-off-by: NGrant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>

In LTO symbols implicitely referenced by the compiler need
to be visible. Earlier these symbols were visible implicitely
from being exported, but we disabled implicit visibility fo
 EXPORTs when modules are disabled to improve code size. So
now these symbols have to be marked visible explicitely.

Do this for __stack_chk_fail (with stack protector)
and memcmp.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391845930-28580-10-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

- Generate a 64-bit pattern more efficiently

memchr_inv needs to generate a 64-bit pattern filled with a target
character.  The operation can be done by more efficient way.

- Don't call the slow check_bytes() if the memory area is 64-bit aligned

memchr_inv compares contiguous 64-bit words with the 64-bit pattern as
much as possible.  The outside of the region is checked by check_bytes()
that scans for each byte.  Unfortunately, the first 64-bit word is
unexpectedly scanned by check_bytes() even if the memory area is aligned
to a 64-bit boundary.

Both changes were originally suggested by Eric Dumazet.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

With bug.h currently living right in linux/kernel.h there
are files that use BUG_ON and friends but are not including
the header explicitly.  Fix them up so we can remove the
presence in kernel.h file.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Commit 84c95c9a ("string: on strstrip(), first remove leading spaces
before running over str") improved the performance of the strim()
function.

Unfortunately this changed the semantics of strim() and broke my code.
Before the patch it was possible to use strim() without using the return
value for removing trailing spaces from strings that had either only
blanks or only trailing blanks.

Now this does not work any longer for strings that *only* have blanks.

Before patch: "   " -> ""    (empty string)
After patch:  "   " -> "   " (no change)

I think we should remove your patch to restore the old behavior.

The description (lib/string.c):

 * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator

=> The first trailing whitespace of a string that only has whitespace
   characters is the first whitespace

The patch restores the old strim() semantics.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andre Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

memchr_inv() is mainly used to check whether the whole buffer is filled
with just a specified byte.

The function name and prototype are stolen from logfs and the
implementation is from SLUB.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: NJoern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is a rename of the usr_strtobool proposal, which was a renamed,
relocated and fixed version of previous kstrtobool RFC
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

This is a rename of the usr_strtobool proposal, which was a renamed,
relocated and fixed version of previous kstrtobool RFC
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Removes 32 bytes on core2 with gcc 4.4.1:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   3196       0       0    3196     c7c lib/string-BEFORE.o
   3164       0       0    3164     c5c lib/string-AFTER.o
Signed-off-by: NAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It differs strstr() in that it limits the length to be searched
in the first string.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8743.6030805@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Fix kernel-doc warnings (@arg name) in string.c::skip_spaces().

  Warning(lib/string.c:347): No description found for parameter 'str'
  Warning(lib/string.c:347): Excess function parameter 's' description in 'skip_spaces'
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Recently, We marked strstrip() as must_check.  because it was frequently
misused and it should be checked.  However, we found one exception.
scsi/ipr.c intentionally ignore return value of strstrip.  Because it
wishes to keep the whitespace at the beginning.

Thus we need to keep with and without checked whitespace trim function.
This patch adds a new strim() and changes ipr.c to use it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Suggested-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

... so that strlen() iterates over a smaller string comprising of the
remaining characters only.
Signed-off-by: NAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On the following sentence:
    while (*s && isspace(*s))
        s++;

If *s == 0, isspace() evaluates to ((_ctype[*s] & 0x20) != 0), which
evaluates to ((0x08 & 0x20) != 0) which equals to 0 as well.
If *s == 1, we depend on isspace() result anyway. In other words,
"a char equals zero is never a space", so remove this check.

Also, *s != 0 is most common case (non-null string).

Fixed const return as noticed by Jan Engelhardt and James Bottomley.
Fixed unnecessary extra cast on strstrip() as noticed by Jan Engelhardt.
Signed-off-by: NAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Doing the strcmp return value as

	signed char __res = *cs - *ct;

is wrong for two reasons.  The subtraction can overflow because __res
doesn't use a type big enough.  Moreover the compared bytes should be
interpreted as unsigned char as specified by POSIX.

The same problem is fixed in strncmp.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a new sysfs_streq() string comparison function, which ignores
the trailing newlines found in sysfs inputs.  By example:

	sysfs_streq("a", "b")	==> false
	sysfs_streq("a", "a")	==> true
	sysfs_streq("a", "a\n")	==> true
	sysfs_streq("a\n", "a")	==> true

This is intended to simplify parsing of sysfs inputs, letting them
avoid the need to manually strip off newlines from inputs.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: NGreg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We have several platforms using local copies of identical
code.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
source files, including:

  * make multi-line initial descriptions single line
  * denote some function names, constants and structs as such
  * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
  * reword some text for clarity
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

strstrip() does not remove the last blank from strings which only consist
of blanks.

Example:
char string[] = "  ";
strstrip(string);

results in " ", but should produce an empty string!

The following patch solves this problem:
Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a new strstrip() function to lib/string.c for removing leading and
trailing whitespace from a string.

Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NIngo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Acked-by: NJoern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NMichael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

lib/string.c: In function 'memcpy':
lib/string.c:470: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer =
target type
Signed-off-by: NJan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Some string functions were safely overrideable in lib/string.c, but their
corresponding declarations in linux/string.h were not.  Correct this, and
make strcspn overrideable.

Odds of someone wanting to do optimized assembly of these are small, but
for the sake of cleanliness, might as well bring them into line with the
rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

While cleaning up parisc_ksyms.c earlier, I noticed that strpbrk wasn't
being exported from lib/string.c.  Investigating further, I noticed a
changeset that removed its export and added it to _ksyms.c on a few more
architectures.  The justification was that "other arches do it."

I think this is wrong, since no architecture currently defines
__HAVE_ARCH_STRPBRK, there's no reason for any of them to be exporting it
themselves.  Therefore, consolidate the export to lib/string.c.
Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Sam's tree includes a new check, which found that we're exporting strpbrk()
multiple times.

It seems that the convention is that this is exported from the arch files, so
reove the lib/string.c export.

Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

A couple of (char *) casts removed in a previous cleanup patch in
lib/string.c:memmove() were actually useful, as they suppressed a couple of
warnings:

	assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Fix by declaring the local variable const in the first place, so casts
aren't needed to strip the const qualifier.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The first two hunks of the patch really belongs in patch 1, but I missed
them on the first pass and instead of redoing all 3 patches I stuck them in
this one.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>