[PATCH v4 10/12] string: factorize skip_spaces and export it to be generally available

["André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>]

On the following sentence:
    while (*s && isspace(*s))
        s++;

If *s == 0, isspace() evaluates to ((_ctype[*s] & 0x20) != 0), which
evaluates to ((0x08 & 0x20) != 0) which equals to 0 as well.
If *s == 1, we depend on isspace() result anyway.

In other words, "a char equals zero is never a space". So remove this check.
Also, *s != 0 is by far the most common case (non-empty string).

Fixed const return as noticed by Jan Engelhardt and James Bottomley

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
---
 include/linux/string.h |    1 +
 lib/string.c           |   19 +++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index b850886..3bba9ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ extern char * strnchr(const char *, size_t, int);
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR
 extern char * strrchr(const char *,int);
 #endif
+extern char * __must_check skip_spaces(const char *);
 extern char * __must_check strstrip(char *);
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSTR
 extern char * strstr(const char *,const char *);
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index b19b87a..d9a51d5 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -330,6 +330,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);
 #endif
 
 /**
+ * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @s.
+ * @s: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @s.
+ */
+char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
+{
+	while (isspace(*str))
+		++str;
+	return str;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skip_spaces);
+
+/**
  * strstrip - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
  * @s: The string to be stripped.
  *
@@ -352,10 +366,7 @@ char *strstrip(char *s)
 		end--;
 	*(end + 1) = '\0';
 
-	while (*s && isspace(*s))
-		s++;
-
-	return s;
+	return (char *)skip_spaces(s);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstrip);
 
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