diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 9e3cb6923b0e..5077776e995e 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>	/* for inline */
 #include <linux/types.h>	/* for size_t */
 #include <linux/stddef.h>	/* for NULL */
+#include <linux/err.h>		/* for ERR_PTR() */
 #include <linux/errno.h>	/* for E2BIG */
+#include <linux/overflow.h>	/* for check_mul_overflow() */
 #include <linux/stdarg.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/string.h>
 
@@ -14,6 +16,44 @@ extern void *memdup_user(const void __user *, size_t);
 extern void *vmemdup_user(const void __user *, size_t);
 extern void *memdup_user_nul(const void __user *, size_t);
 
+/**
+ * memdup_array_user - duplicate array from user space
+ * @src: source address in user space
+ * @n: number of array members to copy
+ * @size: size of one array member
+ *
+ * Return: an ERR_PTR() on failure. Result is physically
+ * contiguous, to be freed by kfree().
+ */
+static inline void *memdup_array_user(const void __user *src, size_t n, size_t size)
+{
+	size_t nbytes;
+
+	if (check_mul_overflow(n, size, &nbytes))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EOVERFLOW);
+
+	return memdup_user(src, nbytes);
+}
+
+/**
+ * vmemdup_array_user - duplicate array from user space
+ * @src: source address in user space
+ * @n: number of array members to copy
+ * @size: size of one array member
+ *
+ * Return: an ERR_PTR() on failure. Result may be not
+ * physically contiguous. Use kvfree() to free.
+ */
+static inline void *vmemdup_array_user(const void __user *src, size_t n, size_t size)
+{
+	size_t nbytes;
+
+	if (check_mul_overflow(n, size, &nbytes))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EOVERFLOW);
+
+	return vmemdup_user(src, nbytes);
+}
+
 /*
  * Include machine specific inline routines
  */