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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-05 12:47:28 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-05 12:47:28 +0100 |
commit | 7df4edb07cf54a4868b9a750424c0d2aa68f8d66 (patch) | |
tree | 0ad0ad3f3dcb6f9edf26dde42ba625053dddf54f /mm/util.c | |
parent | 0d688da5505d77bcef2441e0a22d8cc26459702d (diff) | |
parent | 559595a985e106d2fa9f0c79b7f5805453fed593 (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommu
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index cb00b748ce4..37eaccdf305 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 |