linux-kernel - [PATCH v10 3/5] init/main.c: simplify repair_env

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Message-Id: <f0d9664cf6e10cd89c8fa551885b91a75619b267.1528215659.git.msuchanek@suse.de>
Date:   Tue,  5 Jun 2018 18:43:10 +0200
From:   Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Aaron Wu <Aaron.Wu@...log.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Steven Rostedt," <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@...il.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v10 3/5] init/main.c: simplify repair_env_string.

Quoting characters are now removed from the parameter so value always
follows directly after the NUL terminating parameter name.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
---
 init/main.c | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 4bc2819d97ad..d0f4a7a0f010 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -251,15 +251,10 @@ static int __init repair_env_string(char *param, char *val,
 				    const char *unused, void *arg)
 {
 	if (val) {
-		/* param=val or param="val"? */
-		if (val == param+strlen(param)+1)
-			val[-1] = '=';
-		else if (val == param+strlen(param)+2) {
-			val[-2] = '=';
-			memmove(val-1, val, strlen(val)+1);
-			val--;
-		} else
-			BUG();
+		int parm_len = strlen(param);
+
+		param[parm_len] = '=';
+		BUG_ON(val != param + parm_len + 1);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.13.6