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authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>2015-06-25 15:02:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-25 17:00:40 -0700
commit94df290404cd0da8016698bf3f398410f29d9a64 (patch)
tree3a1af17ab47e65b86d51f3d6511b1f5dc0ed4bc0 /lib/string.c
parent9d2a8da006fcbf2dea663c095f0a0088dfbbec15 (diff)
downloadlinux-94df290404cd0da8016698bf3f398410f29d9a64.tar.bz2
lib/string.c: introduce strreplace()
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: Rasmus 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index bb3d4b6993c4..13d1e84ddb80 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -849,3 +849,20 @@ void *memchr_inv(const void *start, int c, size_t bytes)
return check_bytes8(start, value, bytes % 8);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(memchr_inv);
+
+/**
+ * strreplace - Replace all occurrences of character in string.
+ * @s: The string to operate on.
+ * @old: The character being replaced.
+ * @new: The character @old is replaced with.
+ *
+ * Returns pointer to the nul byte at the end of @s.
+ */
+char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new)
+{
+ for (; *s; ++s)
+ if (*s == old)
+ *s = new;
+ return s;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strreplace);