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diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index b72b872806..fa1d06d846 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -197,6 +197,41 @@ void path_combine(char *dest, int dest_size,
}
}
+/*
+ * Helper function for bdrv_parse_filename() implementations to remove optional
+ * protocol prefixes (especially "file:") from a filename and for putting the
+ * stripped filename into the options QDict if there is such a prefix.
+ */
+void bdrv_parse_filename_strip_prefix(const char *filename, const char *prefix,
+ QDict *options)
+{
+ if (strstart(filename, prefix, &filename)) {
+ /* Stripping the explicit protocol prefix may result in a protocol
+ * prefix being (wrongly) detected (if the filename contains a colon) */
+ if (path_has_protocol(filename)) {
+ QString *fat_filename;
+
+ /* This means there is some colon before the first slash; therefore,
+ * this cannot be an absolute path */
+ assert(!path_is_absolute(filename));
+
+ /* And we can thus fix the protocol detection issue by prefixing it
+ * by "./" */
+ fat_filename = qstring_from_str("./");
+ qstring_append(fat_filename, filename);
+
+ assert(!path_has_protocol(qstring_get_str(fat_filename)));
+
+ qdict_put(options, "filename", fat_filename);
+ } else {
+ /* If no protocol prefix was detected, we can use the shortened
+ * filename as-is */
+ qdict_put_str(options, "filename", filename);
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+
/* Returns whether the image file is opened as read-only. Note that this can
* return false and writing to the image file is still not possible because the
* image is inactivated. */