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-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h2
-rw-r--r--lib/string.c8
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index d943fcce690..9e47fe01c16 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ void *memchr_inv(const void *, int, size_t);
* memory is available
*
*/
-char *memdup(const void *src, size_t len);
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len);
unsigned long ustrtoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base);
unsigned long long ustrtoull(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base);
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index d56f88d4a84..c2813e0f854 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -667,17 +667,15 @@ void * memscan(void * addr, int c, size_t size)
}
#endif
-char *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
{
- char *p;
+ void *p;
p = malloc(len);
if (!p)
return NULL;
- memcpy(p, src, len);
-
- return p;
+ return memcpy(p, src, len);
}
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNSTR