lib: move kasprintf to a separate file

kasprintf pulls in kmalloc which proved to be fatal for at least
bootimage target on alpha.
Move it to a separate file so only users of kasprintf are exposed
to the dependency on kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 614966387402e57b26e7b9fe4fd51daa7f34f282..d9e5f1cd0bfbb4e4cedae4d68ec7af423c80fa79 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Makefile for some libs needed in the kernel.
 #
 
-lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
+lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o kasprintf.o cmdline.o \
         rbtree.o radix-tree.o dump_stack.o \
         idr.o int_sqrt.o bitmap.o extable.o prio_tree.o \
         sha1.o irq_regs.o reciprocal_div.o argv_split.o

diff --git a/lib/kasprintf.c b/lib/kasprintf.c
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c5ff1fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/kasprintf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ *  linux/lib/kasprintf.c
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
+ */
+
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+
+/* Simplified asprintf. */
+char *kvasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
+{
+       unsigned int len;
+       char *p;
+       va_list aq;
+
+       va_copy(aq, ap);
+       len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, aq);
+       va_end(aq);
+
+       p = kmalloc(len+1, gfp);
+       if (!p)
+               return NULL;
+
+       vsnprintf(p, len+1, fmt, ap);
+
+       return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvasprintf);
+
+char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+       va_list ap;
+       char *p;
+
+       va_start(ap, fmt);
+       p = kvasprintf(gfp, fmt, ap);
+       va_end(ap);
+
+       return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kasprintf);

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 6b6734df6d2df692b7d3d180220f9eb663fc3142..7b481cea54ae1a9492d2c59ae3aa795b392ad28b 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -978,38 +978,3 @@ int sscanf(const char * buf, const char * fmt, ...)
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sscanf);
-
-
-/* Simplified asprintf. */
-char *kvasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
-{
-       unsigned int len;
-       char *p;
-       va_list aq;
-
-       va_copy(aq, ap);
-       len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, aq);
-       va_end(aq);
-
-       p = kmalloc(len+1, gfp);
-       if (!p)
-               return NULL;
-
-       vsnprintf(p, len+1, fmt, ap);
-
-       return p;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvasprintf);
-
-char *kasprintf(gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...)
-{
-       va_list ap;
-       char *p;
-
-       va_start(ap, fmt);
-       p = kvasprintf(gfp, fmt, ap);
-       va_end(ap);
-
-       return p;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kasprintf);