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netlink: Introduce nla_strdup() 

This is similar to strdup() for netlink string attributes.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Phil Sutter 2017-07-27 16:56:40 +02:00 committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
parent 6e692678d7
commit 2cf0c8b3e6
2 changed files with 25 additions and 0 deletions
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include/net/netlink.h
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@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype, const struct nlattr *head,
int nla_policy_len(const struct nla_policy *, int);
struct nlattr *nla_find(const struct nlattr *head, int len, int attrtype);
size_t nla_strlcpy(char *dst, const struct nlattr *nla, size_t dstsize);
char *nla_strdup(const struct nlattr *nla, gfp_t flags);
int nla_memcpy(void *dest, const struct nlattr *src, int count);
int nla_memcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const void *data, size_t size);
int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str);

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lib/nlattr.c
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@ -271,6 +271,30 @@ 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