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author | Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@linaro.org> | 2014-07-17 10:58:19 +1000 |
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committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2014-07-17 10:58:19 +1000 |
commit | 282d121e7f5c35a9faee7344b8d877071e6a1c0a (patch) | |
tree | 00972d6dc3edf3004d54a80c84ed64b4963259d8 /mm | |
parent | 590702528011a1c6ad0e7653843defd0b4748c25 (diff) |
mm/util.c: add kstrimdup()
kstrimdup() creates a whitespace-trimmed duplicate of the passed in
null-terminated string. This is useful for strings coming from sysfs that
often include trailing whitespace due to user input.
Thanks to Joe Perches for this implementation.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@linaro.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 7b6608df2ee8..ff7a52e7386e 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/compiler.h> #include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/ctype.h> #include <linux/err.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/security.h> @@ -62,6 +63,35 @@ char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrndup); /** + * kstrimdup - Trim and copy a %NUL terminated string. + * @s: the string to trim and duplicate + * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory + * + * Returns an address, which the caller must kfree, containing + * a duplicate of the passed string with leading and/or trailing + * whitespace (as defined by isspace) removed. + */ +char *kstrimdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp) +{ + char *buf; + char *begin = skip_spaces(s); + size_t len = strlen(begin); + + while (len && isspace(begin[len - 1])) + len--; + + buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len + 1, gfp); + if (!buf) + return NULL; + + memcpy(buf, begin, len); + buf[len] = '\0'; + + return buf; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrimdup); + +/** * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory * * @src: memory region to duplicate |