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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-07-04 17:25:02 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-02-25 11:03:36 +0100
commit4dbb8e38a1aad1b2ac4abb2a6486d7f2c91a2248 (patch)
tree6857690c35ed97a192160dde2e0a6c29fd2f3abc /include
parent016cf65fbd1c8acd267e118e536cdb888adbaf78 (diff)
Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
commit f35157417215ec138c920320c746fdb3e04ef1d5 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index aa30789b0f65..98bb781a2eff 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
extern const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
+extern char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
extern void argv_free(char **argv);