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-rw-r--r--mm/util.c26
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 78f3783bdcc..bf340d80686 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.
*/