Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/8] net: netconsole: move newline trimming to function

From: Breno Leitao <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:16:23 -0800

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 03:13:38PM -0800, Matthew Wood wrote:
> Move newline trimming logic from `dev_name_store()` to a new function
> (trim_newline()) for shared use in netconsole.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wood <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/netconsole.c | 17 +++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> index 085350beca87..b280d06bf152 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> @@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ static struct netconsole_target *to_target(struct config_item *item)
>  			    struct netconsole_target, group);
>  }
> 
> +/* Get rid of possible trailing newline, returning the new length */
> +static void trim_newline(char *s, size_t maxlen)
> +{
> +	size_t len;
> +
> +	len = strnlen(s, maxlen);
> +	if (s[len - 1] == '\n')
> +		s[len - 1] = '\0';
> +}

I am thinking about this one. Should we replace the first `\n` in the
file by `\0` no matter where it is? This will probably make it easier to
implement the netconsd, where we know it will be impossible to have `\n`
in the userdata.

Maybe something as:

	static inline void trim_newline(char *str)
	{
		char *pos = strchr(str, '\n');

		if (pos)
			*pos = '\0';
	}

All in all, this is a good clean up, which make the code easier to read.
Thanks!