[PATCH] Implement kasprintf
Implement kasprintf, a kernel version of asprintf. This allocates the
memory required for the formatted string, including the trailing '\0'.
Returns NULL on allocation failure.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 8c21aaa..3c5e4c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)));
extern int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 0)));
+extern char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...)
+ __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
extern int sscanf(const char *, const char *, ...)
__attribute__ ((format (scanf, 2, 3)));