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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] One strdup() to rule them all
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:25:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030825122532.J10720@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030825161435.GB8961@callisto.yi.org>; from da-x@gmx.net on Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:14:35PM +0300

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

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-25 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-25 16:14 [BK PATCH] One strdup() to rule them all Dan Aloni
2003-08-25 16:25 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2003-08-25 16:34   ` Dan Aloni
2003-08-25 17:05   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-25 17:23     ` Dan Aloni
2003-08-25 17:49     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-11 16:22       ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-12  1:57         ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-12  3:12           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12  4:16             ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-12  8:49               ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-08-25 16:37 ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-25 16:55   ` Dan Aloni
2003-08-25 17:02     ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-25 17:04   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-25 17:08     ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-25 17:22       ` Jeff Garzik

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