From 4b8164b91d9fdff4dbac0a742d076bdff7fda21b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:08:47 -0500 Subject: new helper: dup_iter() Copy iter and kmemdup the underlying array for the copy. Returns a pointer to result of kmemdup() to be kfree()'d later. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/uio.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/uio.h') diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h index 07a022641996..71880299ed48 100644 --- a/include/linux/uio.h +++ b/include/linux/uio.h @@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, struct page ***pages, size_t maxsize, size_t *start); int iov_iter_npages(const struct iov_iter *i, int maxpages); +const void *dup_iter(struct iov_iter *new, struct iov_iter *old, gfp_t flags); + static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i) { return i->count; -- cgit v1.2.3