lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool

Add support for "on" and "off" when converting to boolean.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
index e8ba4a013e82..d8a5cf66c316 100644
--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtos8);
  * @s: input string
  * @res: result
  *
- * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
- * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value pointed to by res is
- * updated upon finding a match.
+ * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
+ * [oO][NnFf] for "on" and "off". Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value
+ * pointed to by res is updated upon finding a match.
  */
 int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
 {
@@ -346,6 +346,20 @@ int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
         case '0':
                 *res = false;
                 return 0;
+        case 'o':
+        case 'O':
+                switch (s[1]) {
+                case 'n':
+                case 'N':
+                        *res = true;
+                        return 0;
+                case 'f':
+                case 'F':
+                        *res = false;
+                        return 0;
+                default:
+                        break;
+                }
         default:
                 break;
         }