From: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tamara Diaconita <diaconitatamara@gmail.com>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel@broadcom.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@gmail.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] lib/cmdline.c: Add backslash support to kernel commandline parsing.
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:39:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925203901.0009b327@naga> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170915192856.1d5708b6@kitsune.suse.cz>
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:28:56 +0200
Michal Such=C3=A1nek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:14:09 +0100
> Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>=20
> > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 07:02:46PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > =20
> > > for (i =3D 0; args[i]; i++) {
> > > - if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote)
> > > + if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote && !backslash)
> > > break;
> > > - if (equals =3D=3D 0) {
> > > - if (args[i] =3D=3D '=3D')
> > > - equals =3D i;
> > > +
> > > + if ((equals =3D=3D 0) && (args[i] =3D=3D '=3D'))
> > > + equals =3D i;
> > > +
> > > + if (!backslash) {
> > > + if ((args[i] =3D=3D '"') || (args[i] =3D=3D
> > > '\\')) {
> > > + if (args[i] =3D=3D '"')
> > > + in_quote =3D !in_quote;
> > > + if (args[i] =3D=3D '\\')
> > > + backslash =3D 1;
> > > +
> > > + memmove(args + 1, args, i);
> > > + args++;
> > > + i--;
> > > + }
> > > + } else {
> > > + backslash =3D 0;
> > > }
> > > - if (args[i] =3D=3D '"')
> > > - in_quote =3D !in_quote;
> > > } =20
> >=20
> > ... 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. =20
>=20
> Care to share how it is broken?
Guess not. I will assume it is perfectly fine then. It works perfectly
fine in my testing.
Using memmove for string rewrite is not a matter of taste. It is the
only library function with sane semantics for rewrite of anything. Then
again open-coding it is always an option and maybe in better taste for
some :->
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 18:39 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
2017-09-15 17:28 ` Michal Suchánek
2017-09-25 18:39 ` Michal Suchánek [this message]
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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