On Fri, 4 May 2018 11:40:35 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Cleaning out my INBOX, I stumbled across this old patch.
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:33:17 +0100
> Michal Suchanek <msucha...@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > Quoting characters are now removed from the parameter so value
> > always follows directly after the NUL terminating parameter name.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msucha...@suse.de>
> > ---
> > init/main.c | 13 ++++---------
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > Since the previous "[PATCH v9 3/8] lib/cmdline.c: add backslash
> > support to kernel commandline parsing" adds the memmove in
> > lib/cmdline.c it is now superfluous in init/main.c
>
> I don't believe the above patches were ever applied. Were they?
No, they weren't.
The reason to write them was to support the fadump_extra_args argument
with peculiar semantics that required the quoting cleanup in kernel
argument parsing.
A different solution for the fadump memory consumption is in the works
so I dropped this. There was lack of interest from reviewers, too.
Thanks
Michal
>
> -- Steve
>
> >
> > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> > index 1f5fdedbb293..1e5b1dc940d9 100644
> > --- a/init/main.c
> > +++ b/init/main.c
> > @@ -244,15 +244,10 @@ static int __init repair_env_string(char
> > *param, char *val, const char *unused, void *arg)
> > {
> > if (val) {
> > - /* param=val or param="val"? */
> > - if (val == param+strlen(param)+1)
> > - val[-1] = '=';
> > - else if (val == param+strlen(param)+2) {
> > - val[-2] = '=';
> > - memmove(val-1, val, strlen(val)+1);
> > - val--;
> > - } else
> > - BUG();
> > + int parm_len = strlen(param);
> > +
> > + param[parm_len] = '=';
> > + BUG_ON(val != param + parm_len + 1);
> > }
> > return 0;
> > }
>
