user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/string.h, branch v3.18.108

Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

2018-02-25T10:01:18Z

commit f35157417215ec138c920320c746fdb3e04ef1d5 upstream. Provide a function, kmemdup_nul(), that will create a NUL-terminated string from an unterminated character array where the length is known in advance. This is better than kstrndup() in situations where we already know the string length as the strnlen() in kstrndup() is superfluous. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

string: provide strscpy()

2017-08-11T16:30:09Z

commit 30035e45753b708e7d47a98398500ca005e02b86 upstream. 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: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

2014-10-24T19:33:32Z

Pull /dev/random updates from Ted Ts'o: "This adds a memzero_explicit() call which is guaranteed not to be optimized away by GCC. This is important when we are wiping cryptographically sensitive material" * tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: crypto: memzero_explicit - make sure to clear out sensitive data random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data

random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data

2014-10-17T15:37:29Z

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: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

lib: string: Make all calls to strnicmp into calls to strncasecmp

2014-10-14T00:18:23Z

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: Rasmus Villemoes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant

2014-05-23T02:23:27Z

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: Grant Likely

string: introduce helper to get base file name from given path

2012-12-18T01:15:17Z

There are several places in the kernel that use functionality like basename(3) with the exception: in case of '/foo/bar/' we expect to get an empty string. Let's do it common helper for them. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Jason Baron Cc: YAMANE Toshiaki Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones

string: do not export memweight() to userspace

2012-08-21T23:45:03Z

Fix the following warning: usr/include/linux/string.h:8: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Acked-by: Akinobu Mita Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

string: introduce memweight()

2012-07-31T00:25:16Z

memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in memory area. Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to long-word boundary. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename `w' to `ret'] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Anders Larsen Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds