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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -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 78f3783bdcc8..bf340d806868 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. */ |