linux-kernel - [PATCH 9/9] gpu: nova-core: simplify str_from_null

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Message-Id: <20251208-nova-misc-v1-9-a3ce01376169@nvidia.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:27:01 +0900
From: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, 
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, 
 Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>, 
 Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>, Timur Tabi <ttabi@...dia.com>, 
 Edwin Peer <epeer@...dia.com>, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] gpu: nova-core: simplify str_from_null_terminated

The core library's `CStr` has a `from_bytes_until_nul` method that we
can leverage to simplify this function.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs
index 8b2a4b99c55b..2cccbce78c14 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/util.rs
@@ -2,15 +2,10 @@
 
 /// Converts a null-terminated byte slice to a string, or `None` if the array does not
 /// contains any null byte or contains invalid characters.
-///
-/// Contrary to [`core::ffi::CStr::from_bytes_with_nul`], the null byte can be anywhere in the
-/// slice, and not only in the last position.
 pub(crate) fn str_from_null_terminated(bytes: &[u8]) -> Option<&str> {
     use core::ffi::CStr;
 
-    bytes
-        .iter()
-        .position(|&b| b == 0)
-        .and_then(|null_pos| CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(&bytes[..=null_pos]).ok())
+    CStr::from_bytes_until_nul(bytes)
+        .ok()
         .and_then(|cstr| cstr.to_str().ok())
 }

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