Adding upstream version 6.1.76.upstream/6.1.76upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/memcat_p.c b/lib/memcat_p.c
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index 000000000..b810fbc66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/memcat_p.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+
+/*
+ * Merge two NULL-terminated pointer arrays into a newly allocated
+ * array, which is also NULL-terminated. Nomenclature is inspired by
+ * memset_p() and memcat() found elsewhere in the kernel source tree.
+ */
+void **__memcat_p(void **a, void **b)
+{
+	void **p = a, **new;
+	int nr;
+
+	/* count the elements in both arrays */
+	for (nr = 0, p = a; *p; nr++, p++)
+		;
+	for (p = b; *p; nr++, p++)
+		;
+	/* one for the NULL-terminator */
+	nr++;
+
+	new = kmalloc_array(nr, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!new)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* nr -> last index; p points to NULL in b[] */
+	for (nr--; nr >= 0; nr--, p = p == b ? &a[nr] : p - 1)
+		new[nr] = *p;
+
+	return new;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__memcat_p);
+