Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] lib/cmdline.c Remove quotes symmetrically.

From: Baoquan He <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 18:27:12 +0800

On 08/17/17 at 10:14pm, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Remove quotes from argument value only if there is qoute on both sides.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <[email-masked]>

Sounds reasonable. Just for curiosity, do we have chance to pass in
option with a single '"'?

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 6 ++----
>  lib/cmdline.c                | 7 ++-----
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> index a1614d9b8a21..d7da4ce9f7ae 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
> @@ -489,10 +489,8 @@ static void __init fadump_update_params(struct param_info *param_info,
>  	*tgt++ = ' ';
>  
>  	/* next_arg removes one leading and one trailing '"' */
> -	if (*tgt == '"')
> -		shortening += 1;
> -	if (*(tgt + vallen + shortening) == '"')
> -		shortening += 1;
> +	if ((*tgt == '"') && (*(tgt + vallen + shortening) == '"'))
> +		shortening += 2;
>  
>  	/* remove one leading and one trailing quote if both are present */
>  	if ((val[0] == '"') && (val[vallen - 1] == '"')) {
> diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
> index 4c0888c4a68d..01e701b2afe8 100644
> --- a/lib/cmdline.c
> +++ b/lib/cmdline.c
> @@ -227,14 +227,11 @@ char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val)
>  		*val = args + equals + 1;
>  
>  		/* Don't include quotes in value. */
> -		if (**val == '"') {
> +		if ((**val == '"') && (args[i-1] == '"')) {
>  			(*val)++;
> -			if (args[i-1] == '"')
> -				args[i-1] = '\0';
> +			args[i-1] = '\0';
>  		}
>  	}
> -	if (quoted && args[i-1] == '"')
> -		args[i-1] = '\0';
>  
>  	if (args[i]) {
>  		args[i] = '\0';
> -- 
> 2.10.2
>