[PATCH] kstrdup: convert a few existing implementations
authorRobert Love <rml@novell.com>
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:09:04 +0000 (00:09 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:45:18 +0000 (09:45 -0700)
Convert a bunch of strdup() implementations and their callers to the new
kstrdup().  A few remain, for example see sound/core, and there are tons of
open coded strdup()'s around.  Sigh.  But this is a start.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/um/kernel/process_kern.c

index 804c6bbdf67c157e5e28b6a9be9a76c9d8c0ce04..157584ae4792b46176031ac54e1437f7d43c317a 100644 (file)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "linux/kernel.h"
 #include "linux/sched.h"
 #include "linux/interrupt.h"
+#include "linux/string.h"
 #include "linux/mm.h"
 #include "linux/slab.h"
 #include "linux/utsname.h"
@@ -322,12 +323,7 @@ void do_uml_exitcalls(void)
 
 char *uml_strdup(char *string)
 {
-       char *new;
-
-       new = kmalloc(strlen(string) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if(new == NULL) return(NULL);
-       strcpy(new, string);
-       return(new);
+       return kstrdup(string, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 int copy_to_user_proc(void __user *to, void *from, int size)