+
+
+/*
+ * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
+ *
+ * @s: the string to duplicate
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kstrdup(const char *s, unsigned int __nocast gfp)
+{
+ size_t len;
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ len = strlen(s) + 1;
+ buf = kmalloc(len, gfp);
+ if (buf)
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);