From ea3352f4aa4fc32397d9a535780315e0f2bfee15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Elder Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 21:04:23 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] rbd: define dup_token() Define a new function dup_token(), to be used during argument parsing for making dynamically-allocated copies of tokens being parsed. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder Reviewed-by: Yehuda Sadeh Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c index 2ae3bb0c0a34..384694f40b44 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -2280,6 +2280,42 @@ static inline size_t copy_token(const char **buf, return len; } +/* + * Finds the next token in *buf, dynamically allocates a buffer big + * enough to hold a copy of it, and copies the token into the new + * buffer. The copy is guaranteed to be terminated with '\0'. Note + * that a duplicate buffer is created even for a zero-length token. + * + * Returns a pointer to the newly-allocated duplicate, or a null + * pointer if memory for the duplicate was not available. If + * the lenp argument is a non-null pointer, the length of the token + * (not including the '\0') is returned in *lenp. + * + * If successful, the *buf pointer will be updated to point beyond + * the end of the found token. + * + * Note: uses GFP_KERNEL for allocation. + */ +static inline char *dup_token(const char **buf, size_t *lenp) +{ + char *dup; + size_t len; + + len = next_token(buf); + dup = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dup) + return NULL; + + memcpy(dup, *buf, len); + *(dup + len) = '\0'; + *buf += len; + + if (lenp) + *lenp = len; + + return dup; +} + /* * This fills in the pool_name, obj, obj_len, snap_name, obj_len, * rbd_dev, rbd_md_name, and name fields of the given rbd_dev, based -- 2.20.1