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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ *  linux/tools/lib/string.c
+ *
+ *  Copied from linux/lib/string.c, where it is:
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
+ *
+ *  More specifically, the first copied function was strtobool, which
+ *  was introduced by:
+ *
+ *  d0f1fed29e6e ("Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents")
+ *  Author: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
+/**
+ * memdup - duplicate region of memory
+ *
+ * @src: memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: memory region length
+ */
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
+{
+	void *p = malloc(len);
+
+	if (p)
+		memcpy(p, src, len);
+
+	return p;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
+ * @s: input string
+ * @res: result
+ *
+ * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
+ * [oO][NnFf] for "on" and "off". Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value
+ * pointed to by res is updated upon finding a match.
+ */
+int strtobool(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;
+	case 'o':
+	case 'O':
+		switch (s[1]) {
+		case 'n':
+		case 'N':
+			*res = true;
+			return 0;
+		case 'f':
+		case 'F':
+			*res = false;
+			return 0;
+		default:
+			break;
+		}
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strlcpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer
+ * @dest: Where to copy the string to
+ * @src: Where to copy the string from
+ * @size: size of destination buffer
+ *
+ * Compatible with *BSD: the result is always a valid
+ * NUL-terminated string that fits in the buffer (unless,
+ * of course, the buffer size is zero). It does not pad
+ * out the result like strncpy() does.
+ *
+ * If libc has strlcpy() then that version will override this
+ * implementation:
+ */
+#ifdef __clang__
+#pragma clang diagnostic push
+#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wignored-attributes"
+#endif
+size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
+{
+	size_t ret = strlen(src);
+
+	if (size) {
+		size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
+		memcpy(dest, src, len);
+		dest[len] = '\0';
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+#ifdef __clang__
+#pragma clang diagnostic pop
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @str.
+ * @str: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @str.
+ */
+char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
+{
+	while (isspace(*str))
+		++str;
+	return (char *)str;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strim - 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 *strim(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';
+
+	return skip_spaces(s);
+}
+
+/**
+ * strreplace - Replace all occurrences of character in string.
+ * @s: The string to operate on.
+ * @old: The character being replaced.
+ * @new: The character @old is replaced with.
+ *
+ * Returns pointer to the nul byte at the end of @s.
+ */
+char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new)
+{
+	for (; *s; ++s)
+		if (*s == old)
+			*s = new;
+	return s;
+}