string: Add (x)memdup

It's a common task to duplicate some memory. Add (x)memdup functions.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index eeec137c9e..ceced7f48e 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -725,3 +725,17 @@ void *memchr_inv(const void *start, int c, size_t bytes)
 	return check_bytes8(start, value, bytes % 8);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memchr_inv);
+
+void *memdup(const void *orig, size_t size)
+{
+	void *buf;
+
+	buf = malloc(size);
+	if (!buf)
+		return NULL;
+
+	memcpy(buf, orig, size);
+
+	return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memdup);
diff --git a/lib/xfuncs.c b/lib/xfuncs.c
index db85720195..86d0013787 100644
--- a/lib/xfuncs.c
+++ b/lib/xfuncs.c
@@ -75,3 +75,13 @@ void* xmemalign(size_t alignment, size_t bytes)
 	return p;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(xmemalign);
+
+void *xmemdup(const void *orig, size_t size)
+{
+	void *buf = xmalloc(size);
+
+	memcpy(buf, orig, size);
+
+	return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xmemdup);