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-rw-r--r--mm/slab.c24
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diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 93cbbbb39f4..122d031baab 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -3082,3 +3083,26 @@ unsigned int ksize(const void *objp)
return size;
}
+
+
+/*
+ * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
+ *
+ * @s: the string to duplicate
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kstrdup(const char *s, int gfp)
+{
+ size_t len;
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ len = strlen(s) + 1;
+ buf = kmalloc(len, gfp);
+ if (buf)
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);