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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 26be6407abd7..7b07ec852e01 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup_const);
* @s: the string to duplicate
* @max: read at most @max chars from @s
* @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ *
+ * Note: Use kmemdup_nul() instead if the size is known exactly.
*/
char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
{
@@ -121,6 +123,28 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
/**
+ * kmemdup_nul - Create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
+ * @s: The data to stringify
+ * @len: The size of the data
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ char *buf;
+
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ buf = kmalloc_track_caller(len + 1, gfp);
+ if (buf) {
+ memcpy(buf, s, len);
+ buf[len] = '\0';
+ }
+ return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup_nul);
+
+/**
* memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
*
* @src: source address in user space
@@ -339,9 +363,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
* Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
* to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
*
- * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_REPEAT
- * is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if
- * kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
+ * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported.
+ * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is
+ * preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
*
* Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people.
*/
@@ -366,13 +390,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
- /*
- * We have to override __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly
- * requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator
- * that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly.
- */
- if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_REPEAT) ||
- (size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
+ if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL))
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY;
}