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>

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 537918f8a98eec239a8f16c7ae64cadcbc847789..3dd944cfe171f0094011f5d9f60f01dc371a963c 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp) __malloc;
 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);

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 26be6407abd7efe452a585d341a8d7e5b53d2b32..21ddf90f883d9fe8cf4c3d6f993100a4ca1559fd 100644 (file)
--- 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)
 {
@@ -120,6 +122,28 @@ 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
  *