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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2010-10-19 19:58:49 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2010-10-23 15:27:32 -0400
commitba8e452a4fe64a51b74d43761e14d99f0666cc45 (patch)
tree7237e9bf9f2415eda15fec5e517da3340342e9f1 /net/sunrpc/xdr.c
parent0715dc632a271fc0fedf3ef4779fe28ac1e53ef4 (diff)
SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
We sometimes need to be able to read ahead in an xdr_stream without incrementing the current pointer position. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sunrpc/xdr.c')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/xdr.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
index e0725d9d810..cd9e841e749 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
@@ -573,6 +573,27 @@ void xdr_init_decode(struct xdr_stream *xdr, struct xdr_buf *buf, __be32 *p)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xdr_init_decode);
/**
+ * xdr_inline_peek - Allow read-ahead in the XDR data stream
+ * @xdr: pointer to xdr_stream struct
+ * @nbytes: number of bytes of data to decode
+ *
+ * Check if the input buffer is long enough to enable us to decode
+ * 'nbytes' more bytes of data starting at the current position.
+ * If so return the current pointer without updating the current
+ * pointer position.
+ */
+__be32 * xdr_inline_peek(struct xdr_stream *xdr, size_t nbytes)
+{
+ __be32 *p = xdr->p;
+ __be32 *q = p + XDR_QUADLEN(nbytes);
+
+ if (unlikely(q > xdr->end || q < p))
+ return NULL;
+ return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xdr_inline_peek);
+
+/**
* xdr_inline_decode - Retrieve non-page XDR data to decode
* @xdr: pointer to xdr_stream struct
* @nbytes: number of bytes of data to decode