Re: [PATCH 05/16] rbd: define dup_token()

[Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>]

Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>

On 07/11/2012 07:01 AM, Alex Elder wrote:
> Define a new function dup_token(), to be used during argument
> parsing for making dynamically-allocated copies of tokens being
> parsed.
>
> For now, no gfp_flags parameter is defined (GFP_KERNEL is used) but
> it could be easily be added if needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder<elder@inktank.com>
> ---
>   drivers/block/rbd.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c
> index 2ae3bb0..63c132f 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c
> @@ -2281,6 +2281,42 @@ static inline size_t copy_token(const char **buf,
>   }
>
>   /*
> + * Finds the next token in *buf, dynamically allocates a buffer big
> + * enough to hold a copy of it, and copies the token into the new
> + * buffer.  The copy is guaranteed to be terminated with '\0'.  Note
> + * that a duplicate buffer is created even for a zero-length token.
> + *
> + * Returns a pointer to the newly-allocated duplicate, or a null
> + * pointer if memory for the duplicate was not available.  If
> + * the lenp argument is a non-null pointer, the length of the token
> + * (not including the '\0') is returned in *lenp.
> + *
> + * If successful, the *buf pointer will be updated to point beyond
> + * the end of the found token.
> + *
> + * Note:  For now, the memory is allocated using GFP_KERNEL.
> + */
> +static inline char *dup_token(const char **buf, size_t *lenp)
> +{
> +	char *dup;
> +	size_t len;
> +
> +	len = next_token(buf);
> +	dup = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!dup)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	memcpy(dup, *buf, len);
> +	*(dup + len) = '\0';
> +	*buf += len;
> +
> +	if (lenp)
> +		*lenp = len;
> +
> +	return dup;
> +}
> +
> +/*
>    * This fills in the pool_name, obj, obj_len, snap_name, obj_len,
>    * rbd_dev, rbd_md_name, and name fields of the given rbd_dev, based
>    * on the list of monitor addresses and other options provided via