Currently, a line is interpreted to be a trailer line if it contains a separator. Make parsing stricter by requiring the text on the left of the separator, if not the empty string, to be of the "<token><optional whitespace>" form. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- trailer.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/trailer.c b/trailer.c index f0ecde2..dc525e3 100644 --- a/trailer.c +++ b/trailer.c @@ -563,15 +563,30 @@ static int token_matches_item(const char *tok, struct arg_item *item, int tok_le } /* - * Return the location of the first separator in line, or -1 if there is no - * separator. + * If the given line is of the form + * "<token><optional whitespace><separator>..." or "<separator>...", return the + * location of the separator. Otherwise, return -1. + * + * The separator-starts-line case (in which this function returns 0) is + * distinguished from the non-well-formed-line case (in which this function + * returns -1) because some callers of this function need such a distinction. */ static int find_separator(const char *line, const char *separators) { - int loc = strcspn(line, separators); - if (!line[loc]) - return -1; - return loc; + int whitespace_found = 0; + const char *c; + for (c = line; *c; c++) { + if (strchr(separators, *c)) + return c - line; + if (!whitespace_found && (isalnum(*c) || *c == '-')) + continue; + if (c != line && (*c == ' ' || *c == '\t')) { + whitespace_found = 1; + continue; + } + break; + } + return -1; } /* -- 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020