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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/nlattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/nlattr.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c index ee79b7a3c6b0b..927c2f19f119e 100644 --- a/lib/nlattr.c +++ b/lib/nlattr.c @@ -302,6 +302,30 @@ size_t nla_strlcpy(char *dst, const struct nlattr *nla, size_t dstsize) EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strlcpy); /** + * nla_strdup - Copy string attribute payload into a newly allocated buffer + * @nla: attribute to copy the string from + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc). + * + * Returns a pointer to the allocated buffer or NULL on error. + */ +char *nla_strdup(const struct nlattr *nla, gfp_t flags) +{ + size_t srclen = nla_len(nla); + char *src = nla_data(nla), *dst; + + if (srclen > 0 && src[srclen - 1] == '\0') + srclen--; + + dst = kmalloc(srclen + 1, flags); + if (dst != NULL) { + memcpy(dst, src, srclen); + dst[srclen] = '\0'; + } + return dst; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strdup); + +/** * nla_memcpy - Copy a netlink attribute into another memory area * @dest: where to copy to memcpy * @src: netlink attribute to copy from |