diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 630125818ca8..ac889c5ea11b 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/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_ */