This is a helper function from drivers/ata/libata_core.c, where it is
used to blacklist particular device models.  It's being moved to lib/ so
other drivers may use it for the same purpose.

This implementation in non-recursive, so is safe for the kernel stack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparse warning]
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>