[PATCH] kstrdup: convert a few existing implementations
Convert a bunch of strdup() implementations and their callers to the new
kstrdup(). A few remain, for example see sound/core, and there are tons of
open coded strdup()'s around. Sigh. But this is a start.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/process_kern.c b/arch/um/kernel/process_kern.c
index 804c6bb..157584a 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/process_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/process_kern.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include "linux/kernel.h"
#include "linux/sched.h"
#include "linux/interrupt.h"
+#include "linux/string.h"
#include "linux/mm.h"
#include "linux/slab.h"
#include "linux/utsname.h"
@@ -322,12 +323,7 @@
char *uml_strdup(char *string)
{
- char *new;
-
- new = kmalloc(strlen(string) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if(new == NULL) return(NULL);
- strcpy(new, string);
- return(new);
+ return kstrdup(string, GFP_KERNEL);
}
int copy_to_user_proc(void __user *to, void *from, int size)