mm/util: Introduce kmemdup_array()

[linux-2.6-block.git] / mm / util.c

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 5a6a9802583b18992ea4d81d0a47794b169541ad..5faf3adc6f433ab153465a3f391027ee73aa4a31 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -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
  *