[U-Boot] [PATCH 02/23] fdt: Add a function to get the index of a string

Thierry Reding
2014-08-19T11:13:02Z

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:58:09AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> On 18 August 2014 01:16, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > +int fdt_get_string_index(const void *fdt, int node, const char *property,
> > + const char *string)
> > +{
> > + const char *list, *end;
> > + int len, index = 0;
> > +
> > + list = fdt_getprop(fdt, node, property, &len);
> > + if (!list)
> > + return len;
> > +
> > + end = list + len;
> > +
> > + while (list < end) {
> > + int n = strlen(string);
>
> This can go outside the loop.

Indeed.

> > + int m = strlen(list);
> > +
> > + if (n == m && memcmp(list, string, n) == 0)
> > + return index;
> > +
> > + list += max(n, m) + 1;
>
> I worry that if n > m this will end up in the middle of a the next
> string in the list. What is the intention here?

I can no longer recall why that's there. It certainly seems wrong since
if the current substring isn't what we're looking for the function
should proceed to the next one, which is always m + 1 characters away.

I'll replace this with list += m + 1.

Thierry
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