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From:   Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@ionos.com>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     ndesaulniers@google.com, jinpu.wang@ionos.com,
        Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@ionos.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/string: Introduce sysfs_streqcase
Date:   Fri,  2 Apr 2021 11:40:42 +0200
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As the name shows, it checks if strings are equal in case insensitive
manner. I found some cases using strncasecmp to check the entire
strings and they would not work as intended.

For example, drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c uses
strncasecmp to check that the input via sysfs is "mi". But it would
work even-if the input is "min-wrongcommand".
And also drivers/pnp/interface.c checks "disable" command with
strncasecmp but it would also work if the command is "disable-wrong".

Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@ionos.com>
---
 lib/string.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 7548eb715ddb..5e6bc0d3d5c6 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -714,6 +714,29 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq);
 
+/**
+ * sysfs_streqcase - same to sysfs_streq and case insensitive
+ * @s1: one string
+ * @s2: another string
+ *
+ */
+bool sysfs_streqcase(const char *s1, const char *s2)
+{
+	while (*s1 && tolower(*s1) == tolower(*s2)) {
+		s1++;
+		s2++;
+	}
+
+	if (*s1 == *s2)
+		return true;
+	if (!*s1 && *s2 == '\n' && !s2[1])
+		return true;
+	if (*s1 == '\n' && !s1[1] && !*s2)
+		return true;
+	return false;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streqcase);
+
 /**
  * match_string - matches given string in an array
  * @array:	array of strings
-- 
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