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-rw-r--r--include/linux/string_helpers.h2
-rw-r--r--lib/string_helpers.c23
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index 86f150c2a6b6..fa06dcdc481e 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -94,4 +94,6 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable(const char *src, gfp_t gfp);
char *kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, gfp_t gfp);
char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp);
+void kfree_strarray(char **array, size_t n);
+
#endif
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 963050c0283e..7f2d5fbaf243 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -649,3 +649,26 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp)
return pathname;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kstrdup_quotable_file);
+
+/**
+ * kfree_strarray - free a number of dynamically allocated strings contained
+ * in an array and the array itself
+ *
+ * @array: Dynamically allocated array of strings to free.
+ * @n: Number of strings (starting from the beginning of the array) to free.
+ *
+ * Passing a non-NULL @array and @n == 0 as well as NULL @array are valid
+ * use-cases. If @array is NULL, the function does nothing.
+ */
+void kfree_strarray(char **array, size_t n)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ if (!array)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ kfree(array[i]);
+ kfree(array);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kfree_strarray);