Re: [PATCH 2/2] string: teach strnstr() to not search past NUL-terminator

[Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>]

André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> As noticed by Alex Riesen at:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126364040821071&w=2
> 

Please don't make this change, it's the user's responsibility
to make sure @len won't exceed @s1's length.

All the string functions of "n" version should work when
@s1 is not null-terminated, so don't call strlen() on @s1.

> Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
> cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>  lib/string.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
> index 0f86245..94bad34 100644
> --- a/lib/string.c
> +++ b/lib/string.c
> @@ -689,11 +689,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstr);
>   */
>  char *strnstr(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
>  {
> -	size_t l1 = len, l2;
> +	size_t l1, l2;
>  
>  	l2 = strlen(s2);
>  	if (!l2)
>  		return (char *)s1;
> +	l1 = strlen(s1);
> +	l1 = (l1 <= len) ? l1 : len;
>  	while (l1 >= l2) {
>  		l1--;
>  		if (!memcmp(s1, s2, l2))