[PATCH] create a kstrdup library function

This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.

Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems.  The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.

I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 650dcb12d9a1..d8a10e3dd77d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ static void devinet_sysctl_register(struct in_device *in_dev,
          * by sysctl and we wouldn't want anyone to change it under our feet
          * (see SIOCSIFNAME).
          */     
-        dev_name = net_sysctl_strdup(dev_name);
+        dev_name = kstrdup(dev_name, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!dev_name)
             goto free;