From 4ddd32741da87657113d964588ce13ee64b34820 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:36:29 -0300
Subject: tools: Adopt memdup() from tools/perf, moving it to
 tools/lib/string.c

That will contain more string functions with counterparts, sometimes
verbatim copies, in the kernel.

Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rah6g97kn21vfgmlramorz6o@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/lib/string.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/lib/string.c

(limited to 'tools/lib/string.c')

diff --git a/tools/lib/string.c b/tools/lib/string.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ecfd43a9b24e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/lib/string.c
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+
+/**
+ * memdup - duplicate region of memory
+ *
+ * @src: memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: memory region length
+ */
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
+{
+	void *p = malloc(len);
+
+	if (p)
+		memcpy(p, src, len);
+
+	return p;
+}
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