From 66f6958e69d8055277356d3cc2e7a1d734db1755 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Holzheu Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:12:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks Commit 84c95c9acf0 ("string: on strstrip(), first remove leading spaces before running over str") improved the performance of the strim() function. Unfortunately this changed the semantics of strim() and broke my code. Before the patch it was possible to use strim() without using the return value for removing trailing spaces from strings that had either only blanks or only trailing blanks. Now this does not work any longer for strings that *only* have blanks. Before patch: " " -> "" (empty string) After patch: " " -> " " (no change) I think we should remove your patch to restore the old behavior. The description (lib/string.c): * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator => The first trailing whitespace of a string that only has whitespace characters is the first whitespace The patch restores the old strim() semantics. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Cc: Andre Goddard Rosa Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/string.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 11df54325fb8..dc4a86341f91 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -360,7 +360,6 @@ char *strim(char *s) size_t size; char *end; - s = skip_spaces(s); size = strlen(s); if (!size) return s; @@ -370,7 +369,7 @@ char *strim(char *s) end--; *(end + 1) = '\0'; - return s; + return skip_spaces(s); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(strim); -- 2.39.2