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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2009-03-13 21:44:51 +0000
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-03-13 21:44:51 +0000
commit97fb44eb6bc01f4ffed4300e475aa15e44877375 (patch)
tree481ed6efd0babe7185cae04f2fd295426b36411d /mm/util.c
parente4707dd3e9d0cb57597b6568a5e51fea5d6fca41 (diff)
parent148854c65ea8046b045672fd49f4333aefaa3ab5 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into devel
Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-at91/gpio.c
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index cb00b748ce47..37eaccdf3054 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -129,6 +129,26 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
+/**
+ * kzfree - like kfree but zero memory
+ * @p: object to free memory of
+ *
+ * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed.
+ * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing.
+ */
+void kzfree(const void *p)
+{
+ size_t ks;
+ void *mem = (void *)p;
+
+ if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem)))
+ return;
+ ks = ksize(mem);
+ memset(mem, 0, ks);
+ kfree(mem);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree);
+
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
* @s: The string to duplicate