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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-07-04 17:25:02 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-07-06 03:27:09 -0400
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Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
Provide a function, kmemdup_nul(), that will create a NUL-terminated string from an unterminated character array where the length is known in advance. This is better than kstrndup() in situations where we already know the string length as the strnlen() in kstrndup() is superfluous. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 26be6407abd7..21ddf90f883d 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup_const);
* @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
+ *
+ * Note: Use kmemdup_nul() instead if the size is known exactly.
*/
char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
{
@@ -121,6 +123,28 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
/**
+ * kmemdup_nul - Create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
+ * @s: The data to stringify
+ * @len: The size of the data
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len + 1, gfp);
+ if (buf) {
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ buf[len] = '\0';
+ }
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup_nul);
+
+/**
* memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
*
* @src: source address in user space