1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ceph/decode.h b/include/linux/ceph/decode.h
index bcbd66c84890..4bbf2db45f46 100644
--- a/include/linux/ceph/decode.h
+++ b/include/linux/ceph/decode.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef __CEPH_DECODE_H
 #define __CEPH_DECODE_H
 
+#include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
@@ -85,6 +86,52 @@ static inline int ceph_has_room(void **p, void *end, size_t n)
         } while (0)
 
 /*
+ * Allocate a buffer big enough to hold the wire-encoded string, and
+ * decode the string into it.  The resulting string will always be
+ * terminated with '\0'.  If successful, *p will be advanced
+ * past the decoded data.  Also, if lenp is not a null pointer, the
+ * length (not including the terminating '\0') will be recorded in
+ * *lenp.  Note that a zero-length string is a valid return value.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the newly-allocated string buffer, or a
+ * pointer-coded errno if an error occurs.  Neither *p nor *lenp
+ * will have been updated if an error is returned.
+ *
+ * There are two possible failures:
+ *   - converting the string would require accessing memory at or
+ *     beyond the "end" pointer provided (-E
+ *   - memory could not be allocated for the result
+ */
+static inline char *ceph_extract_encoded_string(void **p, void *end,
+                                                size_t *lenp, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+        u32 len;
+        void *sp = *p;
+        char *buf;
+
+        ceph_decode_32_safe(&sp, end, len, bad);
+        if (!ceph_has_room(&sp, end, len))
+                goto bad;
+
+        buf = kmalloc(len + 1, gfp);
+        if (!buf)
+                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+        if (len)
+                memcpy(buf, sp, len);
+        buf[len] = '\0';
+
+        *p = (char *) *p + sizeof (u32) + len;
+        if (lenp)
+                *lenp = (size_t) len;
+
+        return buf;
+
+bad:
+        return ERR_PTR(-ERANGE);
+}
+
+/*
  * struct ceph_timespec <-> struct timespec
  */
 static inline void ceph_decode_timespec(struct timespec *ts,