The only in-kernel user of "memmem" is scripts/kallsyms.c and it only
uses it to find tokens that are 2 bytes in size. It is trivial to
replace it with a simple function that finds 2-byte tokens.
This should help users from systems that don't have the memmem GNU
extension available.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[email protected]>
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
"667: The neighbor of the beast."
--- ./scripts/kallsyms.c.orig 2007-06-08 12:55:49.000000000 +0100
+++ ./scripts/kallsyms.c 2007-06-08 13:19:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -378,6 +378,17 @@ static void build_initial_tok_table(void
table_cnt = pos;
}
+static void *find_token(unsigned char *str, int len, unsigned char *token)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < len - 1; i++) {
+ if (str[i] == token[0] && str[i+1] == token[1])
+ return &str[i];
+ }
+ return NULL;
+}
+
/* replace a given token in all the valid symbols. Use the sampled symbols
* to update the counts */
static void compress_symbols(unsigned char *str, int idx)
@@ -391,7 +402,7 @@ static void compress_symbols(unsigned ch
p1 = table[i].sym;
/* find the token on the symbol */
- p2 = memmem(p1, len, str, 2);
+ p2 = find_token(p1, len, str);
if (!p2) continue;
/* decrease the counts for this symbol's tokens */
@@ -410,7 +421,7 @@ static void compress_symbols(unsigned ch
if (size < 2) break;
/* find the token on the symbol */
- p2 = memmem(p1, size, str, 2);
+ p2 = find_token(p1, size, str);
} while (p2);
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