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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.

  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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