1 /* uaccess.c: userspace access functions
3 * Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
4 * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
6 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
8 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
9 * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
13 #include <linux/module.h>
14 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
16 /*****************************************************************************/
18 * copy a null terminated string from userspace
20 long strncpy_from_user(char *dst
, const char __user
*src
, long count
)
32 if ((unsigned long) src
< memory_start
)
36 if ((unsigned long) src
>= get_addr_limit())
39 max
= get_addr_limit() - (unsigned long) src
;
40 if ((unsigned long) count
> max
) {
41 memset(dst
+ max
, 0, count
- max
);
46 for (; count
> 0; count
--, p
++, src
++) {
47 __get_user_asm(err
, ch
, src
, "ub", "=r");
55 err
= p
- dst
; /* return length excluding NUL */
59 memset(p
, 0, count
); /* clear remainder of buffer [security] */
63 } /* end strncpy_from_user() */
65 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncpy_from_user
);
67 /*****************************************************************************/
69 * Return the size of a string (including the ending 0)
71 * Return 0 on exception, a value greater than N if too long
73 long strnlen_user(const char __user
*src
, long count
)
83 if ((unsigned long) src
< memory_start
)
87 if ((unsigned long) src
>= get_addr_limit())
90 for (p
= src
; count
> 0; count
--, p
++) {
91 __get_user_asm(err
, ch
, p
, "ub", "=r");
98 return p
- src
+ 1; /* return length including NUL */
100 } /* end strnlen_user() */
102 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnlen_user
);