From 02eac3ee4089d14f4896baea763126193fbe9b13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:22:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] UPSTREAM: lib/string: introduce match_string() helper Occasionally we have to search for an occurrence of a string in an array of strings. Make a simple helper for that purpose. BUG=chromium:622499 TEST=Build image with match_string() enabled Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: David Airlie Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Heikki Krogerus Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: Mika Westerberg Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Sebastian Reichel Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds (cherry picked from commit 56b060814e2d87d6646a85a2f4609c73587399ca) Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Change-Id: I6075bb868e3578caa33561c85f4be57f4ea94cc2 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/355210 Commit-Ready: Guenter Roeck Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Signed-off-by: Jacob Chen --- include/linux/string.h | 2 ++ lib/string.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index aa30789b0f65..5c08e42f95d5 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ static inline int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res) return kstrtobool(s, res); } +int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string); + #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args); int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf); diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 1a90db9bc6e1..ed83562a53ae 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -630,6 +630,32 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq); +/** + * match_string - matches given string in an array + * @array: array of strings + * @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays + * @string: string to match with + * + * Return: + * index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise. + */ +int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string) +{ + int index; + const char *item; + + for (index = 0; index < n; index++) { + item = array[index]; + if (!item) + break; + if (!strcmp(item, string)) + return index; + } + + return -EINVAL; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string); + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET /** * memset - Fill a region of memory with the given value