lib: Add memcat_p(): paste 2 pointer arrays together

This adds a helper to paste 2 pointer arrays together, useful for merging
various types of attribute arrays. There are a few places in the kernel
tree where this is open coded, and I just added one more in the STM class.

The naming is inspired by memset_p() and memcat(), and partial credit for
it goes to Andy Shevchenko.

This patch adds the function wrapped in a type-enforcing macro and a test
module.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

include/linux/string.h

@@ -131,6 +131,13 @@ static inline void *memset_p(void **p, void *v, __kernel_size_t n)
 		return memset64((uint64_t *)p, (uintptr_t)v, n);
 }
 
+extern void **__memcat_p(void **a, void **b);
+#define memcat_p(a, b) ({					\
+	BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(!__same_type(*(a), *(b)),		\
+			 "type mismatch in memcat_p()");	\
+	(typeof(*a) *)__memcat_p((void **)(a), (void **)(b));	\
+})
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY
 extern void * memcpy(void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
 #endif

lib/Kconfig.debug

@@ -1965,6 +1965,14 @@ config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config TEST_MEMCAT_P
+	tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function"
+	help
+	  Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two
+	  pointer arrays together.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
 
 config MEMTEST

lib/Makefile

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_UUID) += test_uuid.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_PARMAN) += test_parman.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_KMOD) += test_kmod.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL) += test_debug_virtual.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_MEMCAT_P) += test_memcat_p.o
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT),y)
 CFLAGS_kobject.o += -DDEBUG

lib/string.c

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 #include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
@@ -890,6 +891,36 @@ void *memscan(void *addr, int c, size_t size)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memscan);
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Merge two NULL-terminated pointer arrays into a newly allocated
+ * array, which is also NULL-terminated. Nomenclature is inspired by
+ * memset_p() and memcat() found elsewhere in the kernel source tree.
+ */
+void **__memcat_p(void **a, void **b)
+{
+	void **p = a, **new;
+	int nr;
+
+	/* count the elements in both arrays */
+	for (nr = 0, p = a; *p; nr++, p++)
+		;
+	for (p = b; *p; nr++, p++)
+		;
+	/* one for the NULL-terminator */
+	nr++;
+
+	new = kmalloc_array(nr, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!new)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* nr -> last index; p points to NULL in b[] */
+	for (nr--; nr >= 0; nr--, p = p == b ? &a[nr] : p - 1)
+		new[nr] = *p;
+
+	return new;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__memcat_p);
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSTR
 /**
  * strstr - Find the first substring in a %NUL terminated string

lib/test_memcat_p.c

+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Test cases for memcat_p() in lib/string.c
+ */
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+struct test_struct {
+	int		num;
+	unsigned int	magic;
+};
+
+#define MAGIC		0xf00ff00f
+/* Size of each of the NULL-terminated input arrays */
+#define INPUT_MAX	128
+/* Expected number of non-NULL elements in the output array */
+#define EXPECT		(INPUT_MAX * 2 - 2)
+
+static int __init test_memcat_p_init(void)
+{
+	struct test_struct **in0, **in1, **out, **p;
+	int err = -ENOMEM, i, r, total = 0;
+
+	in0 = kcalloc(INPUT_MAX, sizeof(*in0), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!in0)
+		return err;
+
+	in1 = kcalloc(INPUT_MAX, sizeof(*in1), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!in1)
+		goto err_free_in0;
+
+	for (i = 0, r = 1; i < INPUT_MAX - 1; i++) {
+		in0[i] = kmalloc(sizeof(**in0), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!in0[i])
+			goto err_free_elements;
+
+		in1[i] = kmalloc(sizeof(**in1), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!in1[i]) {
+			kfree(in0[i]);
+			goto err_free_elements;
+		}
+
+		/* lifted from test_sort.c */
+		r = (r * 725861) % 6599;
+		in0[i]->num = r;
+		in1[i]->num = -r;
+		in0[i]->magic = MAGIC;
+		in1[i]->magic = MAGIC;
+	}
+
+	in0[i] = in1[i] = NULL;
+
+	out = memcat_p(in0, in1);
+	if (!out)
+		goto err_free_all_elements;
+
+	err = -EINVAL;
+	for (i = 0, p = out; *p && (i < INPUT_MAX * 2 - 1); p++, i++) {
+		total += (*p)->num;
+
+		if ((*p)->magic != MAGIC) {
+			pr_err("test failed: wrong magic at %d: %u\n", i,
+			       (*p)->magic);
+			goto err_free_out;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (total) {
+		pr_err("test failed: expected zero total, got %d\n", total);
+		goto err_free_out;
+	}
+
+	if (i != EXPECT) {
+		pr_err("test failed: expected output size %d, got %d\n",
+		       EXPECT, i);
+		goto err_free_out;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < INPUT_MAX - 1; i++)
+		if (out[i] != in0[i] || out[i + INPUT_MAX - 1] != in1[i]) {
+			pr_err("test failed: wrong element order at %d\n", i);
+			goto err_free_out;
+		}
+
+	err = 0;
+	pr_info("test passed\n");
+
+err_free_out:
+	kfree(out);
+err_free_all_elements:
+	i = INPUT_MAX;
+err_free_elements:
+	for (i--; i >= 0; i--) {
+		kfree(in1[i]);
+		kfree(in0[i]);
+	}
+
+	kfree(in1);
+err_free_in0:
+	kfree(in0);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+static void __exit test_memcat_p_exit(void)
+{
+}
+
+module_init(test_memcat_p_init);
+module_exit(test_memcat_p_exit);
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");