[PATCH] create a kstrdup library function

This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.

Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems.  The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.

I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 93cbbbb39f42..122d031baab2 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 #include	<linux/sysctl.h>
 #include	<linux/module.h>
 #include	<linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include	<linux/string.h>
 
 #include	<asm/uaccess.h>
 #include	<asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -3082,3 +3083,26 @@ unsigned int ksize(const void *objp)
 
 	return size;
 }
+
+
+/*
+ * 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
+ */
+char *kstrdup(const char *s, int gfp)
+{
+	size_t len;
+	char *buf;
+
+	if (!s)
+		return NULL;
+
+	len = strlen(s) + 1;
+	buf = kmalloc(len, gfp);
+	if (buf)
+		memcpy(buf, s, len);
+	return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);