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-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h1
-rw-r--r--lib/string.c30
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index c61306da8c52..e4c755860316 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ extern char * strnchr(const char *, size_t, int);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR
extern char * strrchr(const char *,int);
#endif
+extern char * strstrip(char *);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSTR
extern char * strstr(const char *,const char *);
#endif
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 064f6315b1c3..63077267367e 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -301,6 +301,36 @@ char *strnchr(const char *s, size_t count, int c)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);
#endif
+/**
+ * strstrip - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
+ * @s: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator
+ * in the given string @s. Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace
+ * character in @s.
+ */
+char *strstrip(char *s)
+{
+ size_t size;
+ char *end;
+
+ size = strlen(s);
+
+ if (!size)
+ return s;
+
+ end = s + size - 1;
+ while (end != s && isspace(*end))
+ end--;
+ *(end + 1) = '\0';
+
+ while (*s && isspace(*s))
+ s++;
+
+ return s;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstrip);
+
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
/**
* strlen - Find the length of a string