+/**
+ * kstrndup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
+ * @s: the string to duplicate
+ * @max: read at most @max chars from @s
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ size_t len;
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ len = strnlen(s, max);
+ buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len+1, gfp);
+ if (buf) {
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ buf[len] = '\0';
+ }
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrndup);
+
+/**
+ * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory
+ *
+ * @src: memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: memory region length
+ * @gfp: GFP mask to use
+ */
+void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ void *p;
+
+ p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, gfp);
+ if (p)
+ memcpy(p, src, len);
+ return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
+
+/**
+ * memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
+ *
+ * @src: source address in user space
+ * @len: number of bytes to copy
+ *
+ * Returns an ERR_PTR() on failure.
+ */
+void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
+{
+ void *p;
+
+ /*
+ * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and
+ * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS
+ * or GFP_ATOMIC.
+ */
+ p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!p)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ if (copy_from_user(p, src, len)) {
+ kfree(p);
+ return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
+ }
+
+ return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memdup_user);
+
+/**
+ * __krealloc - like krealloc() but don't free @p.
+ * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
+ * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ *
+ * This function is like krealloc() except it never frees the originally
+ * allocated buffer. Use this if you don't want to free the buffer immediately
+ * like, for example, with RCU.
+ */
+void *__krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ void *ret;
+ size_t ks = 0;
+
+ if (unlikely(!new_size))
+ return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
+
+ if (p)
+ ks = ksize(p);
+
+ if (ks >= new_size)
+ return (void *)p;
+
+ ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
+ if (ret && p)
+ memcpy(ret, p, ks);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__krealloc);
+
+/**
+ * krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
+ * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
+ * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ *
+ * The contents of the object pointed to are preserved up to the
+ * lesser of the new and old sizes. If @p is %NULL, krealloc()
+ * behaves exactly like kmalloc(). If @size is 0 and @p is not a
+ * %NULL pointer, the object pointed to is freed.
+ */
+void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ void *ret;
+
+ if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
+ kfree(p);
+ return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
+ }
+
+ ret = __krealloc(p, new_size, flags);
+ if (ret && p != ret)
+ kfree(p);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+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.
+ *
+ * Note: this function zeroes the whole allocated buffer which can be a good
+ * deal bigger than the requested buffer size passed to kmalloc(). So be
+ * careful when using this function in performance sensitive code.
+ */
+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);
+
+int kern_ptr_validate(const void *ptr, unsigned long size)
+{
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)ptr;
+ unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET;
+ unsigned long align_mask = sizeof(void *) - 1;
+
+ if (unlikely(addr < min_addr))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr > (unsigned long)high_memory - size))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(addr & align_mask))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr)))
+ goto out;
+ if (unlikely(!kern_addr_valid(addr + size - 1)))
+ goto out;
+ return 1;
+out:
+ return 0;
+}
+