From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV•linux.org.uk>
To: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse•de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn•net>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel•org>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel•com>,
Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel@broadcom•com>,
Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro•org>,
Tamara Diaconita <diaconitatamara@gmail•com>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata•com>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail•com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat•com>,
Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@gmail•com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel•org>,
linux-doc@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] lib/cmdline.c: Add backslash support to kernel commandline parsing.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:14:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170915171409.GZ5426@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28da60231eb848981e858fa33e3b7e33f8547111.1505494668.git.msuchanek@suse.de>
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 07:02:46PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> for (i = 0; args[i]; i++) {
> - if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote)
> + if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote && !backslash)
> break;
> - if (equals == 0) {
> - if (args[i] == '=')
> - equals = i;
> +
> + if ((equals == 0) && (args[i] == '='))
> + equals = i;
> +
> + if (!backslash) {
> + if ((args[i] == '"') || (args[i] == '\\')) {
> + if (args[i] == '"')
> + in_quote = !in_quote;
> + if (args[i] == '\\')
> + backslash = 1;
> +
> + memmove(args + 1, args, i);
> + args++;
> + i--;
> + }
> + } else {
> + backslash = 0;
> }
> - if (args[i] == '"')
> - in_quote = !in_quote;
> }
... and that makes for Unidiomatic Work With Strings Award for this September.
Using memmove() for string rewrite is almost always bad taste; in this case
it's also (as usual) broken.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-15 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-12 16:01 [PATCH v8 1/6] powerpc/fadump: reduce memory consumption for capture kernel Michal Suchanek
2017-09-12 16:01 ` [PATCH v8 2/6] powerpc/fadump: update documentation about 'fadump_extra_args=' parameter Michal Suchanek
2017-09-12 16:01 ` [PATCH v8 3/6] lib/cmdline.c: Remove quotes symmetrically Michal Suchanek
2017-09-12 16:01 ` [PATCH v8 4/6] powerpc/fadump: update the dequoting logic to match lib/cmdline.c Michal Suchanek
2017-09-12 16:01 ` [PATCH v8 5/6] boot/param: add pointer to current and next argument to unknown parameter callback Michal Suchanek
2017-09-12 16:01 ` [PATCH v8 6/6] powerpc/fadump: use the new parse_args callback arguments Michal Suchanek
2017-09-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] lib/cmdline.c: Add backslash support to kernel commandline parsing Michal Suchanek
2017-09-15 17:14 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-09-15 17:28 ` Michal Suchánek
2017-09-25 18:39 ` Michal Suchánek
2017-09-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] Documentation/admin-guide: backslash support in commandline Michal Suchanek
2017-09-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] powerpc/fadump: stop removing quotes in argument parsing Michal Suchanek
2017-09-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] powerpc/fadump: Update fadump ducumentation on quoting arguments Michal Suchanek
2017-09-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] lib/cmdline.c: Implement single quotes in commandline argument parsing Michal Suchanek
2017-09-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation/admin-guide: single quotes in kernel arguments Michal Suchanek
2017-09-15 17:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-09-25 18:40 ` Michal Suchánek
2017-09-29 13:00 ` [PATCH v8 6/6] powerpc/fadump: use the new parse_args callback arguments Hari Bathini
2017-09-27 10:31 ` [PATCH v8 1/6] powerpc/fadump: reduce memory consumption for capture kernel Hari Bathini
2017-09-27 10:45 ` Hari Bathini
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