[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/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index f595947..797428a 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -849,3 +849,26 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sscanf);
+
+
+/* Simplified asprintf. */
+char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ va_list ap;
+ unsigned int len;
+ char *p;
+
+ va_start(ap, fmt);
+ len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, ap);
+ va_end(ap);
+
+ p = kmalloc(len+1, gfp);
+ if (!p)
+ return NULL;
+ va_start(ap, fmt);
+ vsnprintf(p, len+1, fmt, ap);
+ va_end(ap);
+ return p;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kasprintf);