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| author | Andy Shevchenko | 2020-12-15 20:43:30 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2020-12-15 22:46:16 -0800 |
| commit | 6b2b6b864684848f9deacb6d0faa00626860832e (patch) | |
| tree | 98a6fc88a380aba80322249d18148faf95a7ef0f /lib | |
| parent | e291851d65495739e4eede33b6bc387bb546a19b (diff) | |
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.c | 12 |
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 == ',') { |