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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 20 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index f96d13c281e8..24c5602bee99 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr); void * __must_check __krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t); void * __must_check krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t); void kfree(const void *); +void kzfree(const void *); size_t ksize(const void *); /* diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index cb00b748ce47..37eaccdf3054 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -129,6 +129,26 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc); +/** + * kzfree - like kfree but zero memory + * @p: object to free memory of + * + * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed. + * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing. + */ +void kzfree(const void *p) +{ + size_t ks; + void *mem = (void *)p; + + if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(mem))) + return; + ks = ksize(mem); + memset(mem, 0, ks); + kfree(mem); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzfree); + /* * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space * @s: The string to duplicate |