Subject: [Patch v2] netpoll: warn when there are spaces in parameters

From: Amerigo Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:59:58 -0400

v2: update according to Frans' comments.

Currently, if we leave spaces before dst port,
netconsole will silently accept it as 0. Warn about this.

Also, when spaces appear in other places, make them
visible in error messages.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[email-masked]>
Cc: David Miller <[email-masked]>

---

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 7aa6972..6df1863 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ void netpoll_print_options(struct netpoll *np)
 			 np->name, np->local_port);
 	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: local IP %pI4\n",
 			 np->name, &np->local_ip);
-	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: interface %s\n",
+	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: interface '%s'\n",
 			 np->name, np->dev_name);
 	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: remote port %d\n",
 			 np->name, np->remote_port);
@@ -661,6 +661,9 @@ int netpoll_parse_options(struct netpoll *np, char *opt)
 		if ((delim = strchr(cur, '@')) == NULL)
 			goto parse_failed;
 		*delim = 0;
+		if (*cur == ' ' || *cur == '\t')
+			printk(KERN_INFO "%s: warning: whitespace"
+					"is not allowed\n", np->name);
 		np->remote_port = simple_strtol(cur, NULL, 10);
 		cur = delim;
 	}
@@ -708,7 +711,7 @@ int netpoll_parse_options(struct netpoll *np, char *opt)
 	return 0;
 
  parse_failed:
-	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: couldn't parse config at %s!\n",
+	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: couldn't parse config at '%s'!\n",
 	       np->name, cur);
 	return -1;
 }