linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm: add kstrimdup function

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Date:	Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:32:32 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	patches@...aro.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [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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