diff --git a/net/ceph/buffer.c b/net/ceph/buffer.c
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+++ b/net/ceph/buffer.c
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <linux/ceph/ceph_debug.h>
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+
+#include <linux/ceph/buffer.h>
+#include <linux/ceph/decode.h>
+#include <linux/ceph/libceph.h> /* for ceph_kvmalloc */
+
+struct ceph_buffer *ceph_buffer_new(size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	struct ceph_buffer *b;
+
+	b = kmalloc(sizeof(*b), gfp);
+	if (!b)
+		return NULL;
+
+	b->vec.iov_base = ceph_kvmalloc(len, gfp);
+	if (!b->vec.iov_base) {
+		kfree(b);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	kref_init(&b->kref);
+	b->alloc_len = len;
+	b->vec.iov_len = len;
+	dout("buffer_new %p\n", b);
+	return b;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ceph_buffer_new);
+
+void ceph_buffer_release(struct kref *kref)
+{
+	struct ceph_buffer *b = container_of(kref, struct ceph_buffer, kref);
+
+	dout("buffer_release %p\n", b);
+	kvfree(b->vec.iov_base);
+	kfree(b);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ceph_buffer_release);
+
+int ceph_decode_buffer(struct ceph_buffer **b, void **p, void *end)
+{
+	size_t len;
+
+	ceph_decode_need(p, end, sizeof(u32), bad);
+	len = ceph_decode_32(p);
+	dout("decode_buffer len %d\n", (int)len);
+	ceph_decode_need(p, end, len, bad);
+	*b = ceph_buffer_new(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	if (!*b)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	ceph_decode_copy(p, (*b)->vec.iov_base, len);
+	return 0;
+bad:
+	return -EINVAL;
+}