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diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 0323c0d5629a..e9c9db161d2c 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -631,6 +631,32 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq);
/**
+ * match_string - matches given string in an array
+ * @array: array of strings
+ * @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays
+ * @string: string to match with
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise.
+ */
+int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string)
+{
+ int index;
+ const char *item;
+
+ for (index = 0; index < n; index++) {
+ item = array[index];
+ if (!item)
+ break;
+ if (!strcmp(item, string))
+ return index;
+ }
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string);
+
+/**
* strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
* @s: input string
* @res: result