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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 07a022641996..71880299ed48 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -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;