linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/6] cpumask: don't calculate length of the input string

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Date:   Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:29:36 -0700
From:   Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Tobin C . Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta1@...opsys.com>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...vell.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] cpumask: don't calculate length of the input string

New design of inner bitmap_parse() allows to avoid
calculating the size of a null-terminated string.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@...vell.com>
---
 include/linux/cpumask.h | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
index 21755471b1c3..d55d015edc58 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -633,9 +633,7 @@ static inline int cpumask_parselist_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
  */
 static inline int cpumask_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask *dstp)
 {
-	unsigned int len = strchrnul(buf, '\n') - buf;
-
-	return bitmap_parse(buf, len, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
+	return bitmap_parse(buf, UINT_MAX, cpumask_bits(dstp), nr_cpumask_bits);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.17.1