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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
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Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:

> > Provide a function, kstrcreate()
> 
> <bikeshed>why not kmemdup_nul, since it seems to be to kmemdup exactly as
> memdup_user_nul is to memdup_user?</bikeshed> 

Yeah, that would work too.  Or kmem2str().

David