add kstrndup

Add a kstrndup function, modelled on strndup.  Like strndup this
returns a string copied into its own allocated memory, but it copies
no more than the specified number of bytes from the source.

Remove private strndup() from irda code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 78f3783bdcc8..bf340d806868 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 /**
  * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
- *
  * @s: the string to duplicate
  * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
  */
@@ -27,6 +26,30 @@ char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);
 
 /**
+ * kstrndup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
+ * @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
+ */
+char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+        size_t len;
+        char *buf;
+
+        if (!s)
+                return NULL;
+
+        len = strnlen(s, max);
+        buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len+1, gfp);
+        if (buf) {
+                memcpy(buf, s, len);
+                buf[len] = '\0';
+        }
+        return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrndup);
+
+/**
  * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory
  *
  * @src: memory region to duplicate
@@ -80,7 +103,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
 
 /*
  * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
- *
  * @s: The string to duplicate
  * @n: Maximum number of bytes to copy, including the trailing NUL.
  */