From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:38:47 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] strstrip remove last blank fix
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc4~45
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e6d9fa6f95e382bb2d5725dda18b9e811418e79;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[PATCH] strstrip remove last blank fix

strstrip() does not remove the last blank from strings which only consist
of blanks.

Example:
char string[] = "  ";
strstrip(string);

results in " ", but should produce an empty string!

The following patch solves this problem:

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 63077267367..a485d75962a 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ char *strstrip(char *s)
 		return s;
 
 	end = s + size - 1;
-	while (end != s && isspace(*end))
+	while (end >= s && isspace(*end))
 		end--;
 	*(end + 1) = '\0';