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-rw-r--r--include/linux/string_helpers.h2
-rw-r--r--lib/string_helpers.c28
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index dabe643eb5fa..9de228af00c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -68,4 +68,6 @@ static inline int string_escape_str_any_np(const char *src, char *dst,
return string_escape_str(src, dst, sz, ESCAPE_ANY_NP, only);
}
+char *kstrdup_quotable(const char *src, gfp_t gfp);
+
#endif
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 5c88204b6f1f..aa00c9f989ee 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/string_helpers.h>
@@ -534,3 +535,30 @@ int string_escape_mem(const char *src, size_t isz, char *dst, size_t osz,
return p - dst;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(string_escape_mem);
+
+/*
+ * Return an allocated string that has been escaped of special characters
+ * and double quotes, making it safe to log in quotes.
+ */
+char *kstrdup_quotable(const char *src, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ size_t slen, dlen;
+ char *dst;
+ const int flags = ESCAPE_HEX;
+ const char esc[] = "\f\n\r\t\v\a\e\\\"";
+
+ if (!src)
+ return NULL;
+ slen = strlen(src);
+
+ dlen = string_escape_mem(src, slen, NULL, 0, flags, esc);
+ dst = kmalloc(dlen + 1, gfp);
+ if (!dst)
+ return NULL;
+
+ WARN_ON(string_escape_mem(src, slen, dst, dlen, flags, esc) != dlen);
+ dst[dlen] = '\0';
+
+ return dst;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kstrdup_quotable);