diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 366ed7230b92..b788031e1b8c 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 0edd807dc96522d9a8e8b5298552cd8adf810cc5
+refs/heads/master: b18888ab256f05626193be955a7a03f01d676f8c
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/string.h b/trunk/include/linux/string.h
index 630125818ca8..ac889c5ea11b 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/string.h
@@ -143,4 +143,15 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix)
 
 extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
 
+/**
+ * kbasename - return the last part of a pathname.
+ *
+ * @path: path to extract the filename from.
+ */
+static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path)
+{
+	const char *tail = strrchr(path, '/');
+	return tail ? tail + 1 : path;
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */