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lib/string.c: remove duplicated function
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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: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Villemoes authored and torvalds committed Oct 14, 2014
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27 changes: 10 additions & 17 deletions lib/string.c
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#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>

#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNICMP
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP
/**
* strnicmp - Case insensitive, length-limited string comparison
* strncasecmp - Case insensitive, length-limited string comparison
* @s1: One string
* @s2: The other string
* @len: the maximum number of characters to compare
*/
int strnicmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
{
/* Yes, Virginia, it had better be unsigned */
unsigned char c1, c2;
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} while (--len);
return (int)c1 - (int)c2;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncasecmp);
#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNICMP
int strnicmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
{
return strncasecmp(s1, s2, len);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnicmp);
#endif

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EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcasecmp);
#endif

#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP
int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n)
{
int c1, c2;

do {
c1 = tolower(*s1++);
c2 = tolower(*s2++);
} while ((--n > 0) && c1 == c2 && c1 != 0);
return c1 - c2;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncasecmp);
#endif

#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCPY
/**
* strcpy - Copy a %NUL terminated string
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