This is similar to strdup() for netlink string attributes.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx>
---
include/net/netlink.h | 1 +
lib/nlattr.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index ef8e6c3a80a63..c8c2eb5ae55ef 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype, const struct nlattr *head,
int nla_policy_len(const struct nla_policy *, int);
struct nlattr *nla_find(const struct nlattr *head, int len, int attrtype);
size_t nla_strlcpy(char *dst, const struct nlattr *nla, size_t dstsize);
+char *nla_strdup(const struct nlattr *nla, gfp_t flags);
int nla_memcpy(void *dest, const struct nlattr *src, int count);
int nla_memcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const void *data, size_t size);
int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str);
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index fb52435be42dd..f13013f7e21a1 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -272,6 +272,30 @@ size_t nla_strlcpy(char *dst, const struct nlattr *nla, size_t dstsize)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strlcpy);
/**
+ * nla_strdup - Copy string attribute payload into a newly allocated buffer
+ * @nla: attribute to copy the string from
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the allocated buffer or NULL on error.
+ */
+char *nla_strdup(const struct nlattr *nla, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ size_t srclen = nla_len(nla);
+ char *src = nla_data(nla), *dst;
+
+ if (srclen > 0 && src[srclen - 1] == '\0')
+ srclen--;
+
+ dst = kmalloc(srclen + 1, flags);
+ if (dst != NULL) {
+ memcpy(dst, src, srclen);
+ dst[srclen] = '\0';
+ }
+ return dst;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strdup);
+
+/**
* nla_memcpy - Copy a netlink attribute into another memory area
* @dest: where to copy to memcpy
* @src: netlink attribute to copy from
--
2.13.1
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