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devres: introduce API "devm_kstrdup" 

This patch introduces "devm_kstrdup" API so that the
device's driver can allocate memory and copy string.

Signed-off-by: Manish Badarkhe <badarkhe.manish@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Manish Badarkhe 2014-01-29 20:27:27 +05:30 committed by Mark Brown
parent 38dbfb59d1
commit e31108cad3
2 changed files with 27 additions and 0 deletions
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drivers/base/devres.c
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@ -790,6 +790,32 @@ void * devm_kmalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kmalloc);
/**
* devm_kstrdup - Allocate resource managed space and
* copy an existing string into that.
* @dev: Device to allocate memory for
* @s: the string to duplicate
* @gfp: the GFP mask used in the devm_kmalloc() call when
* allocating memory
* RETURNS:
* Pointer to allocated string on success, NULL on failure.
*/
char *devm_kstrdup(struct device *dev, const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
{
size_t size;
char *buf;
if (!s)
return NULL;
size = strlen(s) + 1;
buf = devm_kmalloc(dev, size, gfp);
if (buf)
memcpy(buf, s, size);
return buf;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kstrdup);
/**
* devm_kfree - Resource-managed kfree
* @dev: Device this memory belongs to

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include/linux/device.h
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@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ static inline void *devm_kcalloc(struct device *dev,
return devm_kmalloc_array(dev, n, size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
}
extern void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, void *p);
extern char *devm_kstrdup(struct device *dev, const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource(struct device *dev, struct resource *res);
void __iomem *devm_request_and_ioremap(struct device *dev,