module: rename next_string() to module_next_tag_pair()

This makes it clearer what it is doing. While at it,
make it available to other code other than main.c.
This will be used in the subsequent patch and make
the changes easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index 1e739f534100..ebb5e6b92a48 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ int try_to_force_load(struct module *mod, const char *reason)
 }
 
 /* Parse tag=value strings from .modinfo section */
-static char *next_string(char *string, unsigned long *secsize)
+char *module_next_tag_pair(char *string, unsigned long *secsize)
 {
 	/* Skip non-zero chars */
 	while (string[0]) {
@@ -1051,10 +1051,10 @@ static char *get_next_modinfo(const struct load_info *info, const char *tag,
 
 	if (prev) {
 		size -= prev - modinfo;
-		modinfo = next_string(prev, &size);
+		modinfo = module_next_tag_pair(prev, &size);
 	}
 
-	for (p = modinfo; p; p = next_string(p, &size)) {
+	for (p = modinfo; p; p = module_next_tag_pair(p, &size)) {
 		if (strncmp(p, tag, taglen) == 0 && p[taglen] == '=')
 			return p + taglen + 1;
 	}