linux-stable/lib/argv_split.c
Neil Horman 8e2b705649 argv_split: allow argv_split to handle NULL pointer in argcp parameter gracefully
It would be nice if the argv_split library function could gracefully handle
a NULL pointer in the argcp parameter, so as to allow functions using it
that did not care about the value of argc to not have to declare a useless
variable.  This patch accomplishes that.  Tested by me, with successful
results.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00

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/*
* Helper function for splitting a string into an argv-like array.
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
static const char *skip_sep(const char *cp)
{
while (*cp && isspace(*cp))
cp++;
return cp;
}
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_sep(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++)
kfree(*p);
kfree(argv);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(argv_free);
/**
* argv_split - split a string at whitespace, returning an argv
* @gfp: the GFP mask used to allocate memory
* @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(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp)
{
int argc = count_argc(str);
char **argv = kzalloc(sizeof(*argv) * (argc+1), gfp);
char **argvp;
if (argv == NULL)
goto out;
if (argcp)
*argcp = argc;
argvp = argv;
while (*str) {
str = skip_sep(str);
if (*str) {
const char *p = str;
char *t;
str = skip_arg(str);
t = kstrndup(p, str-p, gfp);
if (t == NULL)
goto fail;
*argvp++ = t;
}
}
*argvp = NULL;
out:
return argv;
fail:
argv_free(argv);
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(argv_split);