user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/string.h, branch v4.9.191

lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp

2019-04-17T06:36:39Z

[ Upstream commit 5f074f3e192f10c9fade898b9b3b8812e3d83342 ] A recent optimization in Clang (r355672) lowers comparisons of the return value of memcmp against zero to comparisons of the return value of bcmp against zero. This helps some platforms that implement bcmp more efficiently than memcmp. glibc simply aliases bcmp to memcmp, but an optimized implementation is in the works. This results in linkage failures for all targets with Clang due to the undefined symbol. For now, just implement bcmp as a tailcail to memcmp to unbreak the build. This routine can be further optimized in the future. Other ideas discussed: * A weak alias was discussed, but breaks for architectures that define their own implementations of memcmp since aliases to declarations are not permitted (only definitions). Arch-specific memcmp implementations typically declare memcmp in C headers, but implement them in assembly. * -ffreestanding also is used sporadically throughout the kernel. * -fno-builtin-bcmp doesn't work when doing LTO. Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035 Link: https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/string/memcmp.c.html#bcmp Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e16d73346f8091461319a7dfc4ddd18eedcff13 Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/416 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190313211335.165605-1-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor Reported-by: Adhemerval Zanella Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Suggested-by: James Y Knight Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: David Laight Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

string: drop __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup

2018-07-22T12:27:42Z

commit 08a77676f9c5fc69a681ccd2cd8140e65dcb26c7 upstream. e7fd37ba1217 ("cgroup: avoid copying strings longer than the buffers") converted possibly unsafe strncpy() usages in cgroup to strscpy(). However, although the callsites are completely fine with truncated copied, because strscpy() is marked __must_check, it led to the following warnings. kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c: In function ‘cgroup_file_name’: kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1400:10: warning: ignoring return value of ‘strscpy’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] strscpy(buf, cft->name, CGROUP_FILE_NAME_MAX); ^ To avoid the warnings, 50034ed49645 ("cgroup: use strlcpy() instead of strscpy() to avoid spurious warning") switched them to strlcpy(). strlcpy() is worse than strlcpy() because it unconditionally runs strlen() on the source string, and the only reason we switched to strlcpy() here was because it was lacking __must_check, which doesn't reflect any material differences between the two function. It's just that someone added __must_check to strscpy() and not to strlcpy(). These basic string copy operations are used in variety of ways, and one of not-so-uncommon use cases is safely handling truncated copies, where the caller naturally doesn't care about the return value. The __must_check doesn't match the actual use cases and forces users to opt for inferior variants which lack __must_check by happenstance or spread ugly (void) casts. Remove __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ma Shimiao Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Chris Metcalf [backport only the string.h portion to remove build warnings starting to show up - gregkh] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2018-02-25T10:05:41Z

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

include/linux: apply __malloc attribute

2016-05-20T02:12:14Z

Attach the malloc attribute to a few allocation functions. This helps gcc generate better code by telling it that the return value doesn't alias any existing pointers (which is even more valuable given the pessimizations implied by -fno-strict-aliasing). A simple example of what this allows gcc to do can be seen by looking at the last part of drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset: plane->state = kzalloc(sizeof(*plane->state), GFP_KERNEL); if (plane->state) { plane->state->plane = plane; plane->state->rotation = BIT(DRM_ROTATE_0); } which compiles to e8 99 bf d6 ff callq ffffffff8116d540 48 85 c0 test %rax,%rax 48 89 83 40 02 00 00 mov %rax,0x240(%rbx) 74 11 je ffffffff814015c4 48 89 18 mov %rbx,(%rax) 48 8b 83 40 02 00 00 mov 0x240(%rbx),%rax [*] c7 40 40 01 00 00 00 movl $0x1,0x40(%rax) With this patch applied, the instruction at [*] is elided, since the store to plane->state->plane is known to not alter the value of plane->state. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib: move strtobool() to kstrtobool()

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

Create the kstrtobool_from_user() helper and move strtobool() logic into the new kstrtobool() (matching all the other kstrto* functions). Provides an inline wrapper for existing strtobool() callers. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Amitkumar Karwar Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam Cc: Kalle Valo Cc: Steve French Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib/string: introduce match_string() helper

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

Occasionally we have to search for an occurrence of a string in an array of strings. Make a simple helper for that purpose. 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

new helper: memdup_user_nul()

2016-01-04T15:20:19Z

Similar to memdup_user(), except that allocated buffer is one byte longer and '\0' is stored after the copied data. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

string: provide strscpy()

2015-09-10T19:36:59Z

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

lib/string.c: introduce strreplace()

2015-06-26T00:00:40Z

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 Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/util: add kstrdup_const

2015-02-14T05:21:35Z

kstrdup() is often used to duplicate strings where neither source neither destination will be ever modified. In such case we can just reuse the source instead of duplicating it. The problem is that we must be sure that the source is non-modifiable and its life-time is long enough. I suspect the good candidates for such strings are strings located in kernel .rodata section, they cannot be modifed because the section is read-only and their life-time is equal to kernel life-time. This small patchset proposes alternative version of kstrdup - kstrdup_const, which returns source string if it is located in .rodata otherwise it fallbacks to kstrdup. To verify if the source is in .rodata function checks if the address is between sentinels __start_rodata, __end_rodata. I guess it should work with all architectures. The main patch is accompanied by four patches constifying kstrdup for cases where situtation described above happens frequently. I have tested the patchset on mobile platform (exynos4210-trats) and it saves 3272 string allocations. Since minimal allocation is 32 or 64 bytes depending on Kconfig options the patchset saves respectively about 100KB or 200KB of memory. Stats from tested platform show that the main offender is sysfs: By caller: 2260 __kernfs_new_node 631 clk_register+0xc8/0x1b8 318 clk_register+0x34/0x1b8 51 kmem_cache_create 12 alloc_vfsmnt By string (with count >= 5): 883 power 876 subsystem 135 parameters 132 device 61 iommu_group ... This patch (of 5): Add an alternative version of kstrdup which returns pointer to constant char array. The function checks if input string is in persistent and read-only memory section, if yes it returns the input string, otherwise it fallbacks to kstrdup. kstrdup_const is accompanied by kfree_const performing conditional memory deallocation of the string. Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Kyungmin Park Cc: Mike Turquette Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Greg KH Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds