netlink: Introduce nla_strdup()
This is similar to strdup() for netlink string attributes.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index fb52435..f13013f 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -272,6 +272,30 @@ size_t nla_strlcpy(char *dst, const struct nlattr *nla, size_t dstsize)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strlcpy);
/**
+ * nla_strdup - Copy string attribute payload into a newly allocated buffer
+ * @nla: attribute to copy the string from
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the allocated buffer or NULL on error.
+ */
+char *nla_strdup(const struct nlattr *nla, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ size_t srclen = nla_len(nla);
+ char *src = nla_data(nla), *dst;
+
+ if (srclen > 0 && src[srclen - 1] == '\0')
+ srclen--;
+
+ dst = kmalloc(srclen + 1, flags);
+ if (dst != NULL) {
+ memcpy(dst, src, srclen);
+ dst[srclen] = '\0';
+ }
+ return dst;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strdup);
+
+/**
* nla_memcpy - Copy a netlink attribute into another memory area
* @dest: where to copy to memcpy
* @src: netlink attribute to copy from
