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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 37eaccdf305..2599e83eea1 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
/**
@@ -70,6 +71,36 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
/**
+ * memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
+ *
+ * @src: source address in user space
+ * @len: number of bytes to copy
+ *
+ * Returns an ERR_PTR() on failure.
+ */
+void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
+{
+ void *p;
+
+ /*
+ * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and
+ * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS
+ * or GFP_ATOMIC.
+ */
+ p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!p)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ if (copy_from_user(p, src, len)) {
+ kfree(p);
+ return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
+ }
+
+ return p;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memdup_user);
+
+/**
* __krealloc - like krealloc() but don't free @p.
* @p: object to reallocate memory for.
* @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
@@ -206,3 +237,18 @@ int __attribute__((weak)) get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast);
+
+/* Tracepoints definitions. */
+DEFINE_TRACE(kmalloc);
+DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_alloc);
+DEFINE_TRACE(kmalloc_node);
+DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_alloc_node);
+DEFINE_TRACE(kfree);
+DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_free);
+
+EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc);
+EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
+EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node);
+EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_node);
+EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kfree);
+EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);