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[2.15.159.20]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f14sm939258wrt.53.2020.09.28.03.41.59 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 28 Sep 2020 03:42:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Bartosz Golaszewski To: Linus Walleij , Jonathan Corbet , Andy Shevchenko , Kent Gibson Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray() Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:41:47 +0200 Message-Id: <20200928104155.7385-2-brgl@bgdev.pl> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.26.1 In-Reply-To: <20200928104155.7385-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> References: <20200928104155.7385-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org From: Bartosz Golaszewski There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski --- include/linux/string_helpers.h | 2 ++ lib/string_helpers.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h index 86f150c2a6b6..55b25120a1c6 100644 --- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h +++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h @@ -94,4 +94,6 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable(const char *src, gfp_t gfp); char *kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, gfp_t gfp); char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp); +void kfree_strarray(char **str_array, size_t num_str); + #endif diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c index 963050c0283e..bfa4c9f3ca0a 100644 --- a/lib/string_helpers.c +++ b/lib/string_helpers.c @@ -649,3 +649,28 @@ 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 + * + * @str_array: Dynamically allocated array of strings to free. If NULL - the + * function does nothing. + * @num_str: Number of strings (starting from the beginning of the array) to + * free. + * + * Passing a non-null str_array and num_str == 0 as well as NULL str_array + * are valid use-cases. + */ +void kfree_strarray(char **str_array, size_t num_str) +{ + unsigned int i; + + if (!str_array) + return; + + for (i = 0; i < num_str; i++) + kfree(str_array[i]); + kfree(str_array); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kfree_strarray); -- 2.26.1