1 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c
index e11a8654f363..88eb8b68e26b 100644
--- a/net/core/utils.c
+++ b/net/core/utils.c
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 
+#include <asm/byteorder.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
-
 /*
   This is a maximally equidistributed combined Tausworthe generator
   based on code from GNU Scientific Library 1.5 (30 Jun 2004)
@@ -153,3 +153,38 @@ int net_ratelimit(void)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_random);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_ratelimit);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_srandom);
+
+/*
+ * Convert an ASCII string to binary IP.
+ * This is outside of net/ipv4/ because various code that uses IP addresses
+ * is otherwise not dependent on the TCP/IP stack.
+ */
+
+__u32 in_aton(const char *str)
+{
+        unsigned long l;
+        unsigned int val;
+        int i;
+
+        l = 0;
+        for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
+        {
+                l <<= 8;
+                if (*str != '\0')
+                {
+                        val = 0;
+                        while (*str != '\0' && *str != '.')
+                        {
+                                val *= 10;
+                                val += *str - '0';
+                                str++;
+                        }
+                        l |= val;
+                        if (*str != '\0')
+                                str++;
+                }
+        }
+        return(htonl(l));
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(in_aton);