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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/string.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 18 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index e4c755860316..4f69ef9e6eb5 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t); #endif extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp); +extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp); #ifdef __cplusplus } diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 7368479220b3..e14fa84ef39a 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -40,6 +40,24 @@ char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup); +/** + * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory + * + * @src: memory region to duplicate + * @len: memory region length + * @gfp: GFP mask to use + */ +void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) +{ + void *p; + + p = ____kmalloc(len, gfp); + if (p) + memcpy(p, src, len); + return p; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup); + /* * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space * |