linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

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Message-ID: <6062.1493842387@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 03 May 2017 21:13:07 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mszeredi@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:

> > Provide a function, kstrcreate()
> 
> <bikeshed>why not kmemdup_nul, since it seems to be to kmemdup exactly as
> memdup_user_nul is to memdup_user?</bikeshed> 

Yeah, that would work too.  Or kmem2str().

David