lib: Introduce strnstr()

It differs strstr() in that it limits the length to be searched
in the first string.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8743.6030805@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 651839a2a755..a716ee2a8adb 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ static inline __must_check char *strstrip(char *str)
 }
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSTR
-extern char * strstr(const char *,const char *);
+extern char * strstr(const char *, const char *);
+#endif
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNSTR
+extern char * strnstr(const char *, const char *, size_t);
 #endif
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
 extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);