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-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c24
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 537918f8a98e..3dd944cfe171 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp) __malloc;
extern const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
+extern char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
extern void argv_free(char **argv);
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 26be6407abd7..21ddf90f883d 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup_const);
* @s: the string to duplicate
* @max: read at most @max chars from @s
* @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ *
+ * Note: Use kmemdup_nul() instead if the size is known exactly.
*/
char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
{
@@ -121,6 +123,28 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
/**
+ * kmemdup_nul - Create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
+ * @s: The data to stringify
+ * @len: The size of the data
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len + 1, gfp);
+ if (buf) {
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ buf[len] = '\0';
+ }
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup_nul);
+
+/**
* memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
*
* @src: source address in user space