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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-18 10:18:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-18 10:18:39 -0700
commit5cc97bf2d8eaa6cab60727c3eba3e85e29062669 (patch)
tree975976f2cb37b932d65440e6fb9960be93fc0bd7 /mm/util.c
parent826ea8f22cf612d534f33c492c98f7895043bfd1 (diff)
parentdfdcdd42fdf63452ddd1bed6f49ae2a35dfb5d6c (diff)
Merge branch 'xen-upstream' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'xen-upstream' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen: (44 commits) xen: disable all non-virtual drivers xen: use iret directly when possible xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers xen: Attempt to patch inline versions of common operations xen: Place vcpu_info structure into per-cpu memory xen: handle external requests for shutdown, reboot and sysrq xen: machine operations xen: add virtual network device driver xen: add virtual block device driver. xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver xen: Add grant table support xen: use the hvc console infrastructure for Xen console xen: hack to prevent bad segment register reload xen: lazy-mmu operations xen: Add support for preemption xen: SMP guest support xen: Implement sched_clock xen: Account for stolen time xen: ignore RW mapping of RO pages in pagetable_init xen: Complete pagetable pinning ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c26
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 78f3783bdcc..bf340d80686 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
/**
* kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
- *
* @s: the string to duplicate
* @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
*/
@@ -27,6 +26,30 @@ char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);
/**
+ * kstrndup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
+ * @s: the string to duplicate
+ * @max: read at most @max chars from @s
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ size_t len;
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ len = strnlen(s, max);
+ buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len+1, gfp);
+ if (buf) {
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ buf[len] = '\0';
+ }
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrndup);
+
+/**
* kmemdup - duplicate region of memory
*
* @src: memory region to duplicate
@@ -80,7 +103,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
- *
* @s: The string to duplicate
* @n: Maximum number of bytes to copy, including the trailing NUL.
*/