lib: Introduce strnstr()

It differs strstr() in that it limits the length to be searched
in the first string.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8743.6030805@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

include/linux/string.h

@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ static inline __must_check char *strstrip(char *str)
 }
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSTR
-extern char * strstr(const char *,const char *);
+extern char * strstr(const char *, const char *);
+#endif
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNSTR
+extern char * strnstr(const char *, const char *, size_t);
 #endif
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
 extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);

lib/string.c

@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memscan);
  */
 char *strstr(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 {
-	int l1, l2;
+	size_t l1, l2;
 
 	l2 = strlen(s2);
 	if (!l2)
@@ -684,6 +684,31 @@ char *strstr(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstr);
 #endif
 
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNSTR
+/**
+ * strnstr - Find the first substring in a length-limited string
+ * @s1: The string to be searched
+ * @s2: The string to search for
+ * @len: the maximum number of characters to search
+ */
+char *strnstr(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
+{
+	size_t l1 = len, l2;
+
+	l2 = strlen(s2);
+	if (!l2)
+		return (char *)s1;
+	while (l1 >= l2) {
+		l1--;
+		if (!memcmp(s1, s2, l2))
+			return (char *)s1;
+		s1++;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnstr);
+#endif
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCHR
 /**
  * memchr - Find a character in an area of memory.