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
)
31 if ((unsigned long) src
< memory_start
)
35 if ((unsigned long) src
>= get_addr_limit())
38 max
= get_addr_limit() - (unsigned long) src
;
39 if ((unsigned long) count
> max
) {
40 memset(dst
+ max
, 0, count
- max
);
45 for (; count
> 0; count
--, p
++, src
++) {
46 __get_user_asm(err
, ch
, src
, "ub", "=r");
54 err
= p
- dst
; /* return length excluding NUL */
58 memset(p
, 0, count
); /* clear remainder of buffer [security] */
62 } /* end strncpy_from_user() */
64 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncpy_from_user
);
66 /*****************************************************************************/
68 * Return the size of a string (including the ending 0)
70 * Return 0 on exception, a value greater than N if too long
72 long strnlen_user(const char __user
*src
, long count
)
81 if ((unsigned long) src
< memory_start
)
85 if ((unsigned long) src
>= get_addr_limit())
88 for (p
= src
; count
> 0; count
--, p
++) {
89 __get_user_asm(err
, ch
, p
, "ub", "=r");
96 return p
- src
+ 1; /* return length including NUL */
98 } /* end strnlen_user() */
100 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnlen_user
);