diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
index 94be244..e8ba4a0 100644
--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -321,6 +321,56 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtos8);
 
+/**
+ * kstrtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
+ * @s: input string
+ * @res: result
+ *
+ * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
+ * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value pointed to by res is
+ * updated upon finding a match.
+ */
+int kstrtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
+{
+	if (!s)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	switch (s[0]) {
+	case 'y':
+	case 'Y':
+	case '1':
+		*res = true;
+		return 0;
+	case 'n':
+	case 'N':
+	case '0':
+		*res = false;
+		return 0;
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtobool);
+
+/*
+ * Since "base" would be a nonsense argument, this open-codes the
+ * _from_user helper instead of using the helper macro below.
+ */
+int kstrtobool_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t count, bool *res)
+{
+	/* Longest string needed to differentiate, newline, terminator */
+	char buf[4];
+
+	count = min(count, sizeof(buf) - 1);
+	if (copy_from_user(buf, s, count))
+		return -EFAULT;
+	buf[count] = '\0';
+	return kstrtobool(buf, res);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtobool_from_user);
+
 #define kstrto_from_user(f, g, type)					\
 int f(const char __user *s, size_t count, unsigned int base, type *res)	\
 {									\