@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __realloc_size(2);
extern void *kvmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __realloc_size(2);
extern char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
+extern void *kmemdup_array(const void *src, size_t element_size, size_t count, gfp_t gfp);
extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
extern void argv_free(char **argv);
@@ -135,6 +135,23 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
+/**
+ * kmemdup_array - duplicate a given array.
+ *
+ * @src: array to duplicate.
+ * @element_size: size of each element of array.
+ * @count: number of elements to duplicate from array.
+ * @gfp: GFP mask to use.
+ *
+ * Return: duplicated array of @src or %NULL in case of error,
+ * result is physically contiguous. Use kfree() to free.
+ */
+void *kmemdup_array(const void *src, size_t element_size, size_t count, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ return kmemdup(src, size_mul(element_size, count), gfp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup_array);
+
/**
* kvmemdup - duplicate region of memory
*
Introduce kmemdup_array() API to duplicate `n` number of elements from a given array. This internally uses kmemdup to allocate and duplicate the `src` array. Signed-off-by: Kartik <kkartik@nvidia.com> --- v4 -> v5: * Simplify the implementation by just returning kmemdup(size_mul). --- include/linux/string.h | 1 + mm/util.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)