From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:26:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: argv_split: allow argv_split to handle NULL pointer in argcp parameter gracefully
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~735
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e2b705649e294f43a8cd1ea79e4c594c0bd1d9d;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

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>
---

diff --git a/lib/argv_split.c b/lib/argv_split.c
index 4096ed42f49..fad6ce4f7b5 100644
--- a/lib/argv_split.c
+++ b/lib/argv_split.c
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp)
 	if (argv == NULL)
 		goto out;
 
-	*argcp = argc;
+	if (argcp)
+		*argcp = argc;
+
 	argvp = argv;
 
 	while (*str) {