We want len to be the index of the first '\n', or the length of the
string if there is no newline. This is a good example of the
usefulness of strchrnul(). Use that instead, thus eliminating a branch
and a call to strlen().

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
---
 lib/bitmap.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c
index 5d25403..d4b3a6d 100644
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -665,13 +665,8 @@ static int __bitmap_parselist(const char *buf, unsigned 
int buflen,
 
 int bitmap_parselist(const char *bp, unsigned long *maskp, int nmaskbits)
 {
-       char *nl  = strchr(bp, '\n');
-       int len;
-
-       if (nl)
-               len = nl - bp;
-       else
-               len = strlen(bp);
+       char *nl  = strchrnul(bp, '\n');
+       int len = nl - bp;
 
        return __bitmap_parselist(bp, len, 0, maskp, nmaskbits);
 }
-- 
1.9.2

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