Add support for "on" and "off" when converting to boolean.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
---
v3:
- add dropped descripion change, andy.shevchenko
---
lib/kstrtox.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
index e8ba4a013e82..d8a5cf66c316 100644
--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtos8);
* @s: input string
* @res: result
*
- * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
- * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL. Value pointed to by res is
- * updated upon finding a match.
+ * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
+ * [oO][NnFf] for "on" and "off". Otherwise it will return -EINVAL. Value
+ * pointed to by res is updated upon finding a match.
*/
int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
{
@@ -346,6 +346,20 @@ int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
case '0':
*res = false;
return 0;
+ case 'o':
+ case 'O':
+ switch (s[1]) {
+ case 'n':
+ case 'N':
+ *res = true;
+ return 0;
+ case 'f':
+ case 'F':
+ *res = false;
+ return 0;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
default:
break;
}
--
2.6.3
