string: factorize skip_spaces and export it to be generally available
On the following sentence:
while (*s && isspace(*s))
s++;
If *s == 0, isspace() evaluates to ((_ctype[*s] & 0x20) != 0), which
evaluates to ((0x08 & 0x20) != 0) which equals to 0 as well.
If *s == 1, we depend on isspace() result anyway. In other words,
"a char equals zero is never a space", so remove this check.
Also, *s != 0 is most common case (non-null string).
Fixed const return as noticed by Jan Engelhardt and James Bottomley.
Fixed unnecessary extra cast on strstrip() as noticed by Jan Engelhardt.
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index e96421a..3a912a4 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -338,6 +338,20 @@
#endif
/**
+ * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @s.
+ * @s: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @s.
+ */
+char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
+{
+ while (isspace(*str))
+ ++str;
+ return (char *)str;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skip_spaces);
+
+/**
* strstrip - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
* @s: The string to be stripped.
*
@@ -360,10 +374,7 @@
end--;
*(end + 1) = '\0';
- while (*s && isspace(*s))
- s++;
-
- return s;
+ return skip_spaces(s);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstrip);