Re: [BK PATCH] One strdup() to rule them all

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:14:35PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> diff -Nru a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
> --- a/lib/string.c	Mon Aug 25 19:03:26 2003
> +++ b/lib/string.c	Mon Aug 25 19:03:26 2003
> @@ -582,3 +582,19 @@
>  }
>  
>  #endif
> +
> +/**
> + * strdup - Allocate a copy of a string.
> + * @s: The string to copy. Must not be NULL.
> + *
> + * returns the address of the allocation, or NULL on
> + * error. 
> + */
> +char *strdup(const char *s)
> +{
> +	char *rv = kmalloc(strlen(s)+1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (rv)
> +		strcpy(rv, s);
> +	return rv;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(strdup);

Better save strlen(s)+1 in a local size_t variable and use memcpy instead
of strcpy.

	Jakub