lib/strnlen_user.c
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/lib/strnlen_user.c
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
lib/strnlen_user.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 3626 bytes
- Lines
- 130
- Domain
- Kernel Services
- Bucket
- lib
- Inferred role
- Kernel Services: exported/initcall integration point
- Status
- integration implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Shared kernel service surface used by multiple subsystems, including helpers, cryptography, virtualization support, and async I/O infrastructure.
- Shared kernel service surface used by multiple subsystems, including helpers, cryptography, virtualization support, and async I/O infrastructure.
- Exports symbols or registers init work; inspect boot/module ordering and who consumes the exported contract.
- Touches user memory; correctness depends on fault-safe copying and privilege boundary handling.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/kernel.hlinux/export.hlinux/uaccess.hlinux/mm.hlinux/bitops.hasm/word-at-a-time.h
Detected Declarations
function exceptionsfunction exceptionexport strnlen_user
Annotated Snippet
if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants)) {
data = prep_zero_mask(c, data, &constants);
data = create_zero_mask(data);
return res + find_zero(data) + 1 - align;
}
res += sizeof(unsigned long);
/* We already handled 'unsigned long' bytes. Did we do it all ? */
if (unlikely(max <= sizeof(unsigned long)))
break;
max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
unsafe_get_user(c, (unsigned long __user *)(src+res), efault);
}
res -= align;
/*
* Uhhuh. We hit 'max'. But was that the user-specified maximum
* too? If so, return the marker for "too long".
*/
if (res >= count)
return count+1;
/*
* Nope: we hit the address space limit, and we still had more
* characters the caller would have wanted. That's 0.
*/
efault:
return 0;
}
/**
* strnlen_user: - Get the size of a user string INCLUDING final NUL.
* @str: The string to measure.
* @count: Maximum count (including NUL character)
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Get the size of a NUL-terminated string in user space.
*
* Returns the size of the string INCLUDING the terminating NUL.
* If the string is too long, returns a number larger than @count. User
* has to check the return value against "> count".
* On exception (or invalid count), returns 0.
*
* NOTE! You should basically never use this function. There is
* almost never any valid case for using the length of a user space
* string, since the string can be changed at any time by other
* threads. Use "strncpy_from_user()" instead to get a stable copy
* of the string.
*/
long strnlen_user(const char __user *str, long count)
{
unsigned long max_addr, src_addr;
if (unlikely(count <= 0))
return 0;
if (can_do_masked_user_access()) {
long retval;
str = masked_user_read_access_begin(str);
retval = do_strnlen_user(str, count, count);
user_read_access_end();
return retval;
}
max_addr = TASK_SIZE_MAX;
src_addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(str);
if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {
unsigned long max = max_addr - src_addr;
long retval;
/*
* Truncate 'max' to the user-specified limit, so that
* we only have one limit we need to check in the loop
*/
if (max > count)
max = count;
if (user_read_access_begin(str, max)) {
retval = do_strnlen_user(str, count, max);
user_read_access_end();
return retval;
}
}
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnlen_user);
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/kernel.h`, `linux/export.h`, `linux/uaccess.h`, `linux/mm.h`, `linux/bitops.h`, `asm/word-at-a-time.h`.
- Detected declarations: `function exceptions`, `function exception`, `export strnlen_user`.
- Atlas domain: Kernel Services / lib.
- Implementation status: integration implementation candidate.
- This snippet crosses the user/kernel memory boundary; validate fault handling and access checks before translating the pattern.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.