Merge branch 'linus' into smp/core

Pull in upstream to get the fixes so depending changes can be applied.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index d3b1dd718daf..9982344cca34 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -719,6 +719,21 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kstrdup_quotable_file);
 
+/*
+ * Returns duplicate string in which the @old characters are replaced by @new.
+ */
+char *kstrdup_and_replace(const char *src, char old, char new, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	char *dst;
+
+	dst = kstrdup(src, gfp);
+	if (!dst)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return strreplace(dst, old, new);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kstrdup_and_replace);
+
 /**
  * kasprintf_strarray - allocate and fill array of sequential strings
  * @gfp: flags for the slab allocator