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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-22 20:05:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-22 20:05:19 +0100
commitfc6fc7f1b1095b92d4834e69b385b91e412a7ce5 (patch)
tree2ad451d5dac4d460830536944cef1de93be36b2a /mm/util.c
parentx86: select x2apic ops in early apic probe only if x2apic mode is enabled (diff)
parentPM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up] (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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