devres: introduce API "devm_kmemdup
Introduce devm_kmemdup, which uses resource managed kmalloc.
There are several request from maintainers to add this instead
of using kmemdup.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index db4e264..d0914cb 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -831,3 +831,24 @@
WARN_ON(rc);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kfree);
+
+/**
+ * devm_kmemdup - Resource-managed kmemdup
+ * @dev: Device this memory belongs to
+ * @src: Memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: Memory region length
+ * @gfp: GFP mask to use
+ *
+ * Duplicate region of a memory using resource managed kmalloc
+ */
+void *devm_kmemdup(struct device *dev, const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ void *p;
+
+ p = devm_kmalloc(dev, len, gfp);
+ if (p)
+ memcpy(p, src, len);
+
+ return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kmemdup);