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[PATCH] dmi: make dmi_string() behave like strdup()
authorAndrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:28 +0000 (15:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:57:44 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
This patch changes dmi_string() function to allocate string copy by itself, to
avoid code duplication in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c

index ecdaae26275535b2065348ec778d0790a038780f..ae1a1aed2fc0d1e32bb26e9c1575b827e45c0465 100644 (file)
@@ -16,15 +16,25 @@ struct dmi_header {
 static char * __init dmi_string(struct dmi_header *dm, u8 s)
 {
        u8 *bp = ((u8 *) dm) + dm->length;
+       char *str = "";
 
-       if (!s)
-               return "";
-       s--;
-       while (s > 0 && *bp) {
-               bp += strlen(bp) + 1;
+       if (s) {
                s--;
-       }
-       return bp;
+               while (s > 0 && *bp) {
+                       bp += strlen(bp) + 1;
+                       s--;
+               }
+
+               if (*bp != 0) {
+                       str = alloc_bootmem(strlen(bp) + 1);
+                       if (str != NULL)
+                               strcpy(str, bp);
+                       else
+                               printk(KERN_ERR "dmi_string: out of memory.\n");
+               }
+       }
+
+       return str;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -84,19 +94,16 @@ static char *dmi_ident[DMI_STRING_MAX];
  */
 static void __init dmi_save_ident(struct dmi_header *dm, int slot, int string)
 {
-       char *d = (char*)dm;
-       char *p = dmi_string(dm, d[string]);
+       char *p, *d = (char*) dm;
 
-       if (p == NULL || *p == 0)
-               return;
        if (dmi_ident[slot])
                return;
 
-       dmi_ident[slot] = alloc_bootmem(strlen(p) + 1);
-       if(dmi_ident[slot])
-               strcpy(dmi_ident[slot], p);
-       else
-               printk(KERN_ERR "dmi_save_ident: out of memory.\n");
+       p = dmi_string(dm, d[string]);
+       if (p == NULL)
+               return;
+
+       dmi_ident[slot] = p;
 }
 
 /*