diff --git a/tools/include/linux/string.h b/tools/include/linux/string.h
index cee239350a6b..e436f8037c87 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/string.h
@@ -31,4 +31,6 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix)
 
 extern char * __must_check skip_spaces(const char *);
 
+extern char *strim(char *);
+
 #endif /* _TOOLS_LINUX_STRING_H_ */
diff --git a/tools/lib/string.c b/tools/lib/string.c
index 50d400822bb3..80472e6b3829 100644
--- a/tools/lib/string.c
+++ b/tools/lib/string.c
@@ -120,3 +120,28 @@ char *skip_spaces(const char *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);
+}