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authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>2020-12-16 07:43:30 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-16 09:46:16 +0300
commit6b2b6b864684848f9deacb6d0faa00626860832e (patch)
tree98a6fc88a380aba80322249d18148faf95a7ef0f /lib
parente291851d65495739e4eede33b6bc387bb546a19b (diff)
downloadlinux-6b2b6b864684848f9deacb6d0faa00626860832e.tar.xz
lib/cmdline: allow NULL to be an output for get_option()
In the future we would like to use get_option() to only validate the string and parse it separately. To achieve this, allow NULL to be an output for get_option(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112180732.75589-5-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Vitor Massaru Iha <vitor@massaru.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/cmdline.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index ca89846ee0bb..9e186234edc0 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -35,11 +35,14 @@ static int get_range(char **str, int *pint, int n)
/**
* get_option - Parse integer from an option string
* @str: option string
- * @pint: (output) integer value parsed from @str
+ * @pint: (optional output) integer value parsed from @str
*
* Read an int from an option string; if available accept a subsequent
* comma as well.
*
+ * When @pint is NULL the function can be used as a validator of
+ * the current option in the string.
+ *
* Return values:
* 0 - no int in string
* 1 - int found, no subsequent comma
@@ -53,13 +56,16 @@ static int get_range(char **str, int *pint, int n)
int get_option(char **str, int *pint)
{
char *cur = *str;
+ int value;
if (!cur || !(*cur))
return 0;
if (*cur == '-')
- *pint = -simple_strtoull(++cur, str, 0);
+ value = -simple_strtoull(++cur, str, 0);
else
- *pint = simple_strtoull(cur, str, 0);
+ value = simple_strtoull(cur, str, 0);
+ if (pint)
+ *pint = value;
if (cur == *str)
return 0;
if (**str == ',') {