From: Andrey Panin Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:18:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] dmi: make dmi_string() behave like strdup() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~622 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3c7120d552989be94c9137989be5abb6da8954f;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] dmi: make dmi_string() behave like strdup() 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c b/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c index ecdaae26275..ae1a1aed2fc 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c @@ -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; } /*