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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm: add kstrimdup function
On Wed 2014-01-29 15:48:23, Sebastian Capella wrote:
> kstrimdup will duplicate and trim spaces from the passed in
> null terminated string. This is useful for strings coming from
> sysfs that often include trailing whitespace due to user input.

Is it good idea? I mean "\n\n/foo bar baz" is valid filename in
unix. This is kernel interface, it is not meant to be too user
friendly...
Pavel


> +char *kstrimdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> + char *ret = kstrdup(skip_spaces(s), gfp);
> +
> + if (ret)
> + strim(ret);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrimdup);
> +
> +/**
> * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory
> *
> * @src: memory region to duplicate

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