On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Sebastian Capella wrote:
> kstrimdup creates a whitespace-trimmed duplicate of the passed
> in null-terminated string. This is useful for strings coming
> from sysfs that often include trailing whitespace due to user
> input.
>
> Thanks to Joe Perches for this implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/string.h | 1 +
> mm/util.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
> index ac889c5..f29f9a0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ void *memchr_inv(const void *s, int c, size_t n);
>
> extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
> extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
> +extern char *kstrimdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
> extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
>
> extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index 808f375..a8b731c 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/string.h>
> +#include <linux/ctype.h>
> #include <linux/export.h>
> #include <linux/err.h>
> #include <linux/sched.h>
> @@ -63,6 +64,35 @@ char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrndup);
>
> /**
> + * kstrimdup - Trim and copy a %NUL terminated string.
> + * @s: the string to trim and duplicate
> + * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
> + *
> + * Returns an address, which the caller must kfree, containing
> + * a duplicate of the passed string with leading and/or trailing
> + * whitespace (as defined by isspace) removed.
> + */
> +char *kstrimdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> + char *buf;
> + char *begin = skip_spaces(s);
This could be const.
> + size_t len = strlen(begin);
> +
> + while (len && isspace(begin[len - 1]))
> + len--;
> +
> + buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len + 1, gfp);
> + if (!buf)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + memcpy(buf, begin, len);
> + buf[len] = '\0';
> +
> + return buf;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrimdup);
> +
> +/**
> * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory
> *
> * @src: memory region to duplicate
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