Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] string: Export strnchrnul()

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2026, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> Export strnchrnul() for users that may be compiled as modules.
> 
> Reported-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1969fb5a-38ef-4b4b-9d2f-cb9a4348b968@gmx.de
> Fixes: 0bee0cece2a6 ("lib/string: add strnchrnul()")
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Assumed to go via PDx86 where the first (wow!) module user wants to use it.

Thanks guys,

I'm so surprised by this, sashiko did warn about this so I even checked 
myself and saw an export after the closing brace so thought sashiko was 
just wrong... Maybe I was looking that the strrchr's export, can't think 
of anything else to explain it.

>  lib/string.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
> index a3778d5aab4a..cc8982a93afc 100644
> --- a/lib/string.c
> +++ b/lib/string.c
> @@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ char *strnchrnul(const char *s, size_t count, int c)
>  		s++;
>  	return (char *)s;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchrnul);
>  
>  #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR
>  /**
> 

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