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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> | 2007-07-17 18:37:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2007-07-18 08:47:39 -0700 |
| commit | 1e66df3ee301209f4a38df097d7cc5cb9b367a3f (patch) | |
| tree | 55beb2a342dbe08c0404f749e02808e3f09023ac /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 8b4a40809e5330c9da5d20107d693d92d73b31dc (diff) | |
add kstrndup
Add a kstrndup function, modelled on strndup. Like strndup this
returns a string copied into its own allocated memory, but it copies
no more than the specified number of bytes from the source.
Remove private strndup() from irda code.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 26 |
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. */ |