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authorZhenyu Wang <[email protected]>2020-10-30 11:48:17 +0800
committerZhenyu Wang <[email protected]>2020-10-30 11:48:17 +0800
commit4a95857a875e887cc958c92fe9d2cde6184d2ec0 (patch)
tree8d67b681d582ba7ee11a359be7af82ed77bd6620 /lib/string_helpers.c
parentbaec997285e63ad3e03d8b8d45e14776cd737f62 (diff)
parent61334ed227a5852100115180f5535b1396ed5227 (diff)
Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2020-10-29' into gvt-fixes
Backmerge for 5.10-rc1 to apply one extra APL fix. Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <[email protected]>
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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);