Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb

[pandora-kernel.git] / lib / textsearch.c

diff --git a/lib/textsearch.c b/lib/textsearch.c
index 88c98a2..4b7c607 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/textsearch.c
+++ b/lib/textsearch.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *             2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
  * Authors:    Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
- *             Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>
+ *             Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
  *
  * ==========================================================================
  *
@@ -54,10 +54,13 @@
  * USAGE
  *
  *   Before a search can be performed, a configuration must be created
- *   by calling textsearch_prepare() specyfing the searching algorithm and
- *   the pattern to look for. The returned configuration may then be used
- *   for an arbitary amount of times and even in parallel as long as a
- *   separate struct ts_state variable is provided to every instance.
+ *   by calling textsearch_prepare() specifying the searching algorithm,
+ *   the pattern to look for and flags. As a flag, you can set TS_IGNORECASE
+ *   to perform case insensitive matching. But it might slow down
+ *   performance of algorithm, so you should use it at own your risk.
+ *   The returned configuration may then be used for an arbitary
+ *   amount of times and even in parallel as long as a separate struct
+ *   ts_state variable is provided to every instance.
  *
  *   The actual search is performed by either calling textsearch_find_-
  *   continuous() for linear data or by providing an own get_next_block()
@@ -89,7 +92,6 @@
  *       panic("Oh my god, dancing chickens at %d\n", pos);
  *
  *   textsearch_destroy(conf);
- *
  * ==========================================================================
  */
 
@@ -97,6 +99,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/textsearch.h>
@@ -250,7 +253,8 @@ unsigned int textsearch_find_continuous(struct ts_config *conf,
  *       the various search algorithms.
  *
  * Returns a new textsearch configuration according to the specified
- *         parameters or a ERR_PTR().
+ * parameters or a ERR_PTR(). If a zero length pattern is passed, this
+ * function returns EINVAL.
  */
 struct ts_config *textsearch_prepare(const char *algo, const void *pattern,
                                     unsigned int len, gfp_t gfp_mask, int flags)
@@ -259,6 +263,9 @@ struct ts_config *textsearch_prepare(const char *algo, const void *pattern,
        struct ts_config *conf;
        struct ts_ops *ops;
        
+       if (len == 0)
+               return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
        ops = lookup_ts_algo(algo);
 #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
        /*
@@ -275,7 +282,7 @@ struct ts_config *textsearch_prepare(const char *algo, const void *pattern,
        if (ops == NULL)
                goto errout;
 
-       conf = ops->init(pattern, len, gfp_mask);
+       conf = ops->init(pattern, len, gfp_mask, flags);
        if (IS_ERR(conf)) {
                err = PTR_ERR(conf);
                goto errout;