linux-kernel - [PATCH] strstrip remove last blank fix

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Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:07:03 +0200
From:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ibm.com>
To:	penberg@...helsinki.fi
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org,
	joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	ioe-lkml@...eria.de, minyard@....org
Subject: [PATCH] strstrip remove last blank fix

Hi Pekka,

strstrip() does not remove the last blank from strings which only consist
of blanks.

Example:
char string[] = "  ";
strstrip(string);

results in " ", but should produce an empty string!

The following patch solves this problem:

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ibm.com>

---

 lib/string.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -Naurp linux-2.6.18/lib/string.c linux-2.6.18-strstrip-fix/lib/string.c
--- linux-2.6.18/lib/string.c	2006-06-19 14:03:20.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-strstrip-fix/lib/string.c	2006-10-25 18:36:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ char *strstrip(char *s)
 		return s;
 
 	end = s + size - 1;
-	while (end != s && isspace(*end))
+	while (end >= s && isspace(*end))
 		end--;
 	*(end + 1) = '\0';
 

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