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mm/util: Introduce kmemdup_array() 

Introduce kmemdup_array() API to duplicate `n` number of elements
from a given array. This internally uses kmemdup to allocate and duplicate
the `src` array.

Signed-off-by: Kartik <kkartik@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
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Kartik 2023-10-17 10:53:15 +05:30 committed by Thierry Reding
parent 9863084dd9
commit 7092e9b3be
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include/linux/string.h
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@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ 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 void *kmemdup_array(const void *src, size_t element_size, size_t count, gfp_t gfp);
extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
extern void argv_free(char **argv);

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mm/util.c
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@ -135,6 +135,23 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
/**
* kmemdup_array - duplicate a given array.
*
* @src: array to duplicate.
* @element_size: size of each element of array.
* @count: number of elements to duplicate from array.
* @gfp: GFP mask to use.
*
* Return: duplicated array of @src or %NULL in case of error,
* result is physically contiguous. Use kfree() to free.
*/
void *kmemdup_array(const void *src, size_t element_size, size_t count, gfp_t gfp)
{
return kmemdup(src, size_mul(element_size, count), gfp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup_array);
/**
* kvmemdup - duplicate region of memory
*