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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> | 2006-06-25 14:49:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-25 19:01:23 +0200 |
| commit | e905914f96e11862b130dd229f73045dad9a34e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e7cff381970e2439de521c3d42ded8c49f69354 /lib/vsprintf.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] Fix bounds check in vsnprintf, to allow for a 0 size and NULL buffer (diff) | |
| download | linux-e905914f96e11862b130dd229f73045dad9a34e8.tar.xz linux-e905914f96e11862b130dd229f73045dad9a34e8.zip | |
[PATCH] Implement kasprintf
Implement kasprintf, a kernel version of asprintf. This allocates the
memory required for the formatted string, including the trailing '\0'.
Returns NULL on allocation failure.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/vsprintf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/vsprintf.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index f5959476e53d..797428afd111 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -849,3 +849,26 @@ int sscanf(const char * buf, const char * fmt, ...) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sscanf); + + +/* Simplified asprintf. */ +char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...) +{ + va_list ap; + unsigned int len; + char *p; + + va_start(ap, fmt); + len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, ap); + va_end(ap); + + p = kmalloc(len+1, gfp); + if (!p) + return NULL; + va_start(ap, fmt); + vsnprintf(p, len+1, fmt, ap); + va_end(ap); + return p; +} + +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kasprintf); |