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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Helper function for splitting a string into an argv-like array.
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+
+static const char *skip_arg(const char *cp)
+{
+ while (*cp && !isspace(*cp))
+ cp++;
+
+ return cp;
+}
+
+static int count_argc(const char *str)
+{
+ int count = 0;
+
+ while (*str) {
+ str = skip_spaces(str);
+ if (*str) {
+ count++;
+ str = skip_arg(str);
+ }
+ }
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+/**
+ * argv_free - free an argv
+ * @argv - the argument vector to be freed
+ *
+ * Frees an argv and the strings it points to.
+ */
+void argv_free(char **argv)
+{
+ char **p;
+ for (p = argv; *p; p++) {
+ free(*p);
+ *p = NULL;
+ }
+
+ free(argv);
+}
+
+/**
+ * argv_split - split a string at whitespace, returning an argv
+ * @str: the string to be split
+ * @argcp: returned argument count
+ *
+ * Returns an array of pointers to strings which are split out from
+ * @str. This is performed by strictly splitting on white-space; no
+ * quote processing is performed. Multiple whitespace characters are
+ * considered to be a single argument separator. The returned array
+ * is always NULL-terminated. Returns NULL on memory allocation
+ * failure.
+ */
+char **argv_split(const char *str, int *argcp)
+{
+ int argc = count_argc(str);
+ char **argv = calloc(argc + 1, sizeof(*argv));
+ char **argvp;
+
+ if (argv == NULL)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (argcp)
+ *argcp = argc;
+
+ argvp = argv;
+
+ while (*str) {
+ str = skip_spaces(str);
+
+ if (*str) {
+ const char *p = str;
+ char *t;
+
+ str = skip_arg(str);
+
+ t = strndup(p, str-p);
+ if (t == NULL)
+ goto fail;
+ *argvp++ = t;
+ }
+ }
+ *argvp = NULL;
+
+out:
+ return argv;
+
+fail:
+ argv_free(argv);
+ return NULL;
+}