linux-stable/mm/util.c
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 1e66df3ee3 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>
2007-07-18 08:47:39 -07:00

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#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
/**
* 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
*/
char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
{
size_t len;
char *buf;
if (!s)
return NULL;
len = strlen(s) + 1;
buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len, gfp);
if (buf)
memcpy(buf, s, len);
return buf;
}
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
* @len: memory region length
* @gfp: GFP mask to use
*/
void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
{
void *p;
p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, gfp);
if (p)
memcpy(p, src, len);
return p;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
/**
* krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
* @p: object to reallocate memory for.
* @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
*
* The contents of the object pointed to are preserved up to the
* lesser of the new and old sizes. If @p is %NULL, krealloc()
* behaves exactly like kmalloc(). If @size is 0 and @p is not a
* %NULL pointer, the object pointed to is freed.
*/
void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
{
void *ret;
size_t ks;
if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
kfree(p);
return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
}
ks = ksize(p);
if (ks >= new_size)
return (void *)p;
ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
if (ret) {
memcpy(ret, p, min(new_size, ks));
kfree(p);
}
return ret;
}
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.
*/
char *strndup_user(const char __user *s, long n)
{
char *p;
long length;
length = strnlen_user(s, n);
if (!length)
return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
if (length > n)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
p = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (copy_from_user(p, s, length)) {
kfree(p);
return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
}
p[length - 1] = '\0';
return p;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strndup_user);