1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2
3 #include <linux/slab.h>
4
5 /*
6 * Merge two NULL-terminated pointer arrays into a newly allocated
7 * array, which is also NULL-terminated. Nomenclature is inspired by
8 * memset_p() and memcat() found elsewhere in the kernel source tree.
9 */
10 void **__memcat_p(void **a, void **b)
11 {
12 void **p = a, **new;
13 int nr;
14
15 /* count the elements in both arrays */
16 for (nr = 0, p = a; *p; nr++, p++)
17 ;
18 for (p = b; *p; nr++, p++)
19 ;
20 /* one for the NULL-terminator */
21 nr++;
22
23 new = kmalloc_array(nr, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
24 if (!new)
25 return NULL;
26
27 /* nr -> last index; p points to NULL in b[] */
28 for (nr--; nr >= 0; nr--, p = p == b ? &a[nr] : p - 1)
29 new[nr] = *p;
30
31 return new;
32 }
33 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__memcat_p);
34
35
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