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  • #include <linux/slab.h>
    #include <linux/string.h>
    #include <linux/module.h>
    
    /**
     * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
     * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
     * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
     */
    void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
    {
    	void *ret = kmalloc(size, flags);
    	if (ret)
    		memset(ret, 0, size);
    	return ret;
    }
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
    
    /*
     * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
     *
     * @s: the string to duplicate
     * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
     */
    char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
    {
    	size_t len;
    	char *buf;
    
    	if (!s)
    		return NULL;
    
    	len = strlen(s) + 1;
    	buf = kmalloc(len, gfp);
    	if (buf)
    		memcpy(buf, s, len);
    	return buf;
    }
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);