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-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h2
-rw-r--r--lib/string.c26
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 9eebc66..0f235e8 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv);
extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2);
extern int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
+int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf);
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 0323c0d..e9c9db1 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -631,6 +631,32 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq);
/**
+ * match_string - matches given string in an array
+ * @array: array of strings
+ * @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays
+ * @string: string to match with
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise.
+ */
+int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string)
+{
+ int index;
+ const char *item;
+
+ for (index = 0; index < n; index++) {
+ item = array[index];
+ if (!item)
+ break;
+ if (!strcmp(item, string))
+ return index;
+ }
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string);
+
+/**
* strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
* @s: input string
* @res: result
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