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authorHao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com>2022-12-21 22:42:45 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-01-18 17:12:47 -0800
commit0b7b8704ddcee372099a2bc6781db6ab273a85d5 (patch)
treec1c8de77ddf39a5db49b97611c4b7f019aa81990 /include/linux/string.h
parent5a9e34747c9f731bbb6b7fd7521c4fec0d840593 (diff)
mm: new primitive kvmemdup()
Similar to kmemdup(), but support large amount of bytes with kvmalloc() and does *not* guarantee that the result will be physically contiguous. Use only in cases where kvmalloc() is needed and free it with kvfree(). Also adapt policy_unpack.c in case someone bisect into this. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221221144245.27164-1-sunhao.th@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index db28802ab0a6..c062c581a98b 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ 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) __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 char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);