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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/cmdline.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/cmdline.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c index b390dd03363b..dfd4c4423f9a 100644 --- a/lib/cmdline.c +++ b/lib/cmdline.c @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option); * get_options - Parse a string into a list of integers * @str: String to be parsed * @nints: size of integer array - * @ints: integer array + * @ints: integer array (must have room for at least one element) * * This function parses a string containing a comma-separated * list of integers, a hyphen-separated range of _positive_ integers, @@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option); * full, or when no more numbers can be retrieved from the * string. * + * When @nints is 0, the function just validates the given @str and + * returns the amount of parseable integers as described below. + * + * Returns: + * + * The first element is filled by the number of collected integers + * in the range. The rest is what was parsed from the @str. + * * Return value is the character in the string which caused * the parse to end (typically a null terminator, if @str is * completely parseable). @@ -98,15 +106,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option); char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints) { + bool validate = (nints == 0); int res, i = 1; - while (i < nints) { - res = get_option((char **)&str, ints + i); + while (i < nints || validate) { + int *pint = validate ? ints : ints + i; + + res = get_option((char **)&str, pint); if (res == 0) break; if (res == 3) { + int n = validate ? 0 : nints - i; int range_nums; - range_nums = get_range((char **)&str, ints + i, nints - i); + + range_nums = get_range((char **)&str, pint, n); if (range_nums < 0) break; /* |