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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Rasmus Villemoes 2015-06-25 15:02:22 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9d2a8da006
commit 94df290404
2 changed files with 18 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ extern int memcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t);
#endif
void *memchr_inv(const void *s, int c, size_t n);
char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new);
extern void kfree_const(const void *x);

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@ -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);