new helper: dup_iter()

Copy iter and kmemdup the underlying array for the copy.  Returns
a pointer to result of kmemdup() to be kfree()'d later.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2015-01-31 20:08:47 -05:00
parent f5af19d10d
commit 4b8164b91d
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@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, struct page ***pages,
size_t maxsize, size_t *start);
int iov_iter_npages(const struct iov_iter *i, int maxpages);
const void *dup_iter(struct iov_iter *new, struct iov_iter *old, gfp_t flags);
static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
{
return i->count;