[PATCH] LIB: Allow memparse() to accept a NULL and ignorable second parm.

[PATCH] LIB: Allow memparse() to accept a NULL and ignorable second parm.

[Robert P. J. Day]

Extend memparse() to allow the caller to use a NULL second parameter,
which would represent no interest in returning the address of the end
of the parsed string.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

---

  in numerous cases, callers invoke memparse() to parse a
possibly-suffixed string (such as "64K" or "2G" or whatever) and
define a character pointer to accept the end pointer being returned by
memparse() even though they have no interest in it and promptly throw
it away.

  this (backward-compatible) enhancement allows callers to use NULL in
the cases where they just don't care about getting back that end
pointer.

  compile-tested on x86.

diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index f596c08..34129cf 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints)
 /**
  *	memparse - parse a string with mem suffixes into a number
  *	@ptr: Where parse begins
- *	@retptr: (output) Pointer to next char after parse completes
+ *	@retptr: (output) Optional pointer to next char after parse completes
  *
  *	Parses a string into a number.  The number stored at @ptr is
  *	potentially suffixed with %K (for kilobytes, or 1024 bytes),
@@ -128,9 +128,11 @@ char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints)

 unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
 {
-	unsigned long long ret = simple_strtoull (ptr, retptr, 0);
+	char *endptr;	/* local pointer to end of parsed string */

-	switch (**retptr) {
+	unsigned long long ret = simple_strtoull(ptr, &endptr, 0);
+
+	switch (*endptr) {
 	case 'G':
 	case 'g':
 		ret <<= 10;
@@ -140,10 +142,15 @@ unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
 	case 'K':
 	case 'k':
 		ret <<= 10;
-		(*retptr)++;
+		endptr++;
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
+
+	if (retptr) {
+		*retptr = endptr;
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }

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