+ lib-tests-string_helpers-drop-unused-parameters.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ lib-tests-string_helpers-drop-unused-parameters.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: lib/tests: string_helpers: drop unused parameters
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     lib-tests-string_helpers-drop-unused-parameters.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-tests-string_helpers-drop-unused-parameters.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
Subject: lib/tests: string_helpers: drop unused parameters
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:38:07 +0200

Drop the unused parameters from test_string_check_buf() to improve
readability.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260916-string_unescape-v1-2-7f8bd986fa33@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
---

 lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c |    7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c~lib-tests-string_helpers-drop-unused-parameters
+++ a/lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 static void test_string_check_buf(struct kunit *test,
 				  const char *name, unsigned int flags,
-				  char *in, size_t p,
 				  char *out_real, size_t q_real,
 				  char *out_test, size_t q_test)
 {
@@ -101,8 +100,7 @@ static void test_string_unescape(struct
 		q_real = string_unescape(in, out_real, q_real, flags);
 	}
 
-	test_string_check_buf(test, name, flags, in, p - 1, out_real, q_real,
-			      out_test, q_test);
+	test_string_check_buf(test, name, flags, out_real, q_real, out_test, q_test);
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_MSG(test, out_real[q_real], '\0', "name:%s", name);
 }
 
@@ -457,8 +455,7 @@ static void test_string_escape(struct ku
 
 	q_real = string_escape_mem(in, p, out_real, out_size, flags, esc);
 
-	test_string_check_buf(test, name, flags, in, p, out_real, q_real, out_test,
-			      q_test);
+	test_string_check_buf(test, name, flags, out_real, q_real, out_test, q_test);
 
 	test_string_escape_overflow(test, in, p, flags, esc, q_test, name);
 }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jre@pengutronix.de are

lib-tests-string_helpers-check-null-terminator-too.patch
lib-tests-string_helpers-drop-unused-parameters.patch
lib-tests-string_helpers-introduce-test_string_unescape_one.patch
lib-string_helpers-use-full-destination-buffer-in-string_unescape.patch
lib-string_helpers-fix-counting-of-remaining-bytes-in-string_unescape.patch