auxdisplay: remove PARPORT dependency

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / mm / util.c

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 37eaccdf3054e13d60cd83cf5c6cb9869731aec1..7c122e49f769ccea98ae105746e0238acc1652ce 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -69,6 +69,36 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
 }
 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.