@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t
*/
extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
+extern unsigned long simple_strntoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int,size_t);
extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
extern long long simple_strtoll(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_strtoul);
+unsigned long simple_strntoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base,
+ size_t max_chars)
+{
+ return simple_strntoull(cp, endp, base, max_chars);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_strntoul);
+
/**
* simple_strtol - convert a string to a signed long
* @cp: The start of the string
cpio extraction currently does a memcpy to ensure that the archive hex fields are null terminated for simple_strtoul(). simple_strntoul() will allow us to avoid the memcpy. Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> --- include/linux/kstrtox.h | 1 + lib/vsprintf.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)