+/* extract the host portion of the UNC string */
+static char *
+extract_hostname(const char *unc)
+{
+ const char *src;
+ char *dst, *delim;
+ unsigned int len;
+
+ /* skip double chars at beginning of string */
+ /* BB: check validity of these bytes? */
+ src = unc + 2;
+
+ /* delimiter between hostname and sharename is always '\\' now */
+ delim = strchr(src, '\\');
+ if (!delim)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+ len = delim - src;
+ dst = kmalloc((len + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (dst == NULL)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ memcpy(dst, src, len);
+ dst[len] = '\0';
+
+ return dst;
+}
+