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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2020-10-28 21:36:35 +0000
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2020-10-28 21:36:35 +0000
commitce038aeaee68f2e41c732b4b91c7185a1cac14b5 (patch)
treebaa463fe66186edf19b3ca65d002f66dd75f09a1 /lib/string_helpers.c
parent6d6bc54ab4f2404d46078abc04bf4dee4db01def (diff)
parent3650b228f83adda7e5ee532e2b90429c03f7b9ec (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.10-rc1' into asoc-5.10
Linux 5.10-rc1
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/string_helpers.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/string_helpers.c23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 963050c0283e..7f2d5fbaf243 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -649,3 +649,26 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp)
return pathname;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kstrdup_quotable_file);
+
+/**
+ * kfree_strarray - free a number of dynamically allocated strings contained
+ * in an array and the array itself
+ *
+ * @array: Dynamically allocated array of strings to free.
+ * @n: Number of strings (starting from the beginning of the array) to free.
+ *
+ * Passing a non-NULL @array and @n == 0 as well as NULL @array are valid
+ * use-cases. If @array is NULL, the function does nothing.
+ */
+void kfree_strarray(char **array, size_t n)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ if (!array)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ kfree(array[i]);
+ kfree(array);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kfree_strarray);