diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 93f2edf6b60348023b144032089a4e74b43b19f2..1c57c0d0dc41ba723ec45d1f92ea5f30e88866df 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1133,52 +1133,36 @@ static inline int is_subvolume_inode(struct inode *inode)
 }
 
 /*
- * This will strip out the subvol=%s argument for an argument string and add
- * subvolid=0 to make sure we get the actual tree root for path walking to the
- * subvol we want.
+ * This will add subvolid=0 to the argument string while removing any subvol=
+ * and subvolid= arguments to make sure we get the top-level root for path
+ * walking to the subvol we want.
  */
 static char *setup_root_args(char *args)
 {
-	unsigned len = strlen(args) + 2 + 1;
-	char *src, *dst, *buf;
+	char *buf, *dst, *sep;
 
-	/*
-	 * We need the same args as before, but with this substitution:
-	 * s!subvol=[^,]+!subvolid=0!
-	 *
-	 * Since the replacement string is up to 2 bytes longer than the
-	 * original, allocate strlen(args) + 2 + 1 bytes.
-	 */
-
-	src = strstr(args, "subvol=");
-	/* This shouldn't happen, but just in case.. */
-	if (!src)
-		return NULL;
+	if (!args)
+		return kstrdup("subvolid=0", GFP_NOFS);
 
-	buf = dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	/* The worst case is that we add ",subvolid=0" to the end. */
+	buf = dst = kmalloc(strlen(args) + strlen(",subvolid=0") + 1, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!buf)
 		return NULL;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the subvol= arg is not at the start of the string,
-	 * copy whatever precedes it into buf.
-	 */
-	if (src != args) {
-		*src++ = '\0';
-		strcpy(buf, args);
-		dst += strlen(args);
+	while (1) {
+		sep = strchrnul(args, ',');
+		if (!strstarts(args, "subvol=") &&
+		    !strstarts(args, "subvolid=")) {
+			memcpy(dst, args, sep - args);
+			dst += sep - args;
+			*dst++ = ',';
+		}
+		if (*sep)
+			args = sep + 1;
+		else
+			break;
 	}
-
 	strcpy(dst, "subvolid=0");
-	dst += strlen("subvolid=0");
-
-	/*
-	 * If there is a "," after the original subvol=... string,
-	 * copy that suffix into our buffer.  Otherwise, we're done.
-	 */
-	src = strchr(src, ',');
-	if (src)
-		strcpy(dst, src);
 
 	return buf;
 }