linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/2] kmemdup: introduce

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Date:	Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:55:26 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] kmemdup: introduce

On 9/9/06, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> +/**
> + * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory
> + *
> + * @src: memory region to duplicate
> + * @len: memory region length
> + * @gfp: GFP mask to use
> + */
> +void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> +       void *p;
> +
> +       p = ____kmalloc(len, gfp);
> +       if (p)
> +               memcpy(p, src, len);
> +       return p;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);

Assuming there are enough callers that can be converted to justify
this, looks good to me.
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