As the name shows, it checks if strings are equal in case insensitive manner.
For example, drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c uses strncasecmp to check that the input via sysfs is "mi". But it would work even-if the input is "min-wrongcommand". I found some more cases using strncasecmp to check the entire string such as rtrs-clt-sysfs.c does. drivers/pnp/interface.c checks "disable" command with strncasecmp but it would also work if the command is "disable-wrong". Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh....@ionos.com> --- include/linux/string.h | 1 + lib/string.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index 4fcfb56abcf5..36d00ff8013e 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp); extern void argv_free(char **argv); extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2); +extern bool sysfs_streqcase(const char *s1, const char *s2); extern int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res); static inline int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res) { diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 7548eb715ddb..d0fb02efd5da 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -687,6 +687,17 @@ char *strsep(char **s, const char *ct) EXPORT_SYMBOL(strsep); #endif +static inline bool __streq_terminal(const char *s1, const char *s2) +{ + if (*s1 == *s2) + return true; + if (!*s1 && *s2 == '\n' && !s2[1]) + return true; + if (*s1 == '\n' && !s1[1] && !*s2) + return true; + return false; +} + /** * sysfs_streq - return true if strings are equal, modulo trailing newline * @s1: one string @@ -703,17 +714,26 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2) s1++; s2++; } - - if (*s1 == *s2) - return true; - if (!*s1 && *s2 == '\n' && !s2[1]) - return true; - if (*s1 == '\n' && !s1[1] && !*s2) - return true; - return false; + return __streq_terminal(s1, s2); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq); +/** + * sysfs_streqcase - same to sysfs_streq and case insensitive + * @s1: one string + * @s2: another string + * + */ +bool sysfs_streqcase(const char *s1, const char *s2) +{ + while (*s1 && tolower(*s1) == tolower(*s2)) { + s1++; + s2++; + } + return __streq_terminal(s1, s2); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streqcase); + /** * match_string - matches given string in an array * @array: array of strings -- 2.25.1