params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal

The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index ddaae98c53f9..fffb10bd5514 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -262,6 +262,26 @@ static inline void __kernel_param_unlock(void)
                             .str = &__param_string_##name, 0, perm);    \
         __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, "string")
 
+/**
+ * parameq - checks if two parameter names match
+ * @name1: parameter name 1
+ * @name2: parameter name 2
+ *
+ * Returns true if the two parameter names are equal.
+ * Dashes (-) are considered equal to underscores (_).
+ */
+extern bool parameq(const char *name1, const char *name2);
+
+/**
+ * parameqn - checks if two parameter names match
+ * @name1: parameter name 1
+ * @name2: parameter name 2
+ * @n: the length to compare
+ *
+ * Similar to parameq(), except it compares @n characters.
+ */
+extern bool parameqn(const char *name1, const char *name2, size_t n);
+
 /* Called on module insert or kernel boot */
 extern int parse_args(const char *name,
                       char *args,