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authorTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>2017-02-19 16:08:31 -0500
committerAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>2017-02-21 16:56:16 -0500
commit5c741d4f2215371ae17e3dbdf3d46da850662e13 (patch)
treefe11a91112e809918a12bdfac4b5ba692ad04f36 /include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h
parent1bbe60ff49becd7554e9b32b5e8e6fcee4b33db2 (diff)
SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_stream_decode_string_dup()
Create a helper function that decodes a xdr string object, allocates a memory buffer and then store it as a NUL terminated string. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h
index dc7e51a769ac..054c8cde18f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h
@@ -242,6 +242,8 @@ extern unsigned int xdr_read_pages(struct xdr_stream *xdr, unsigned int len);
extern void xdr_enter_page(struct xdr_stream *xdr, unsigned int len);
extern int xdr_process_buf(struct xdr_buf *buf, unsigned int offset, unsigned int len, int (*actor)(struct scatterlist *, void *), void *data);
+ssize_t xdr_stream_decode_string_dup(struct xdr_stream *xdr, char **str,
+ size_t maxlen, gfp_t gfp_flags);
/**
* xdr_align_size - Calculate padded size of an object
* @n: Size of an object being XDR encoded (in bytes)