diff options
author | Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-03-13 21:44:51 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-03-13 21:44:51 +0000 |
commit | 97fb44eb6bc01f4ffed4300e475aa15e44877375 (patch) | |
tree | 481ed6efd0babe7185cae04f2fd295426b36411d /mm/util.c | |
parent | e4707dd3e9d0cb57597b6568a5e51fea5d6fca41 (diff) | |
parent | 148854c65ea8046b045672fd49f4333aefaa3ab5 (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into devel
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-at91/gpio.c
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 20 |
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 |