This brings the kernel parser about on par with bourne shell, grub, and other tools that chew the arguments before kernel does. This should make it easier to deal with multiple levels of nesting/quoting. With same quoting grammar on each level there is less room for confusion. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> --- lib/cmdline.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c index d98bdc017545..c5335a79a177 100644 --- a/lib/cmdline.c +++ b/lib/cmdline.c @@ -191,34 +191,45 @@ bool parse_option_str(const char *str, const char *option) return false; } +#define squash_char { \ + memmove(args + 1, args, i); \ + args++; \ + i--; \ +} + /* * Parse a string to get a param value pair. - * You can use " around spaces, and you can escape with \ + * You can use " or ' around spaces, and you can escape with \ * Hyphens and underscores equivalent in parameter names. */ char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val) { unsigned int i, equals = 0; - int in_quote = 0, backslash = 0; + int in_quote = 0, backslash = 0, in_single = 0; char *next; for (i = 0; args[i]; i++) { - if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote && !backslash) + if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote && !backslash && !in_single) break; if ((equals == 0) && (args[i] == '=')) equals = i; - if (!backslash) { - if ((args[i] == '"') || (args[i] == '\\')) { + if (in_single) { + if (args[i] == '\'') { + in_single = 0; + squash_char; + } + } else if (!backslash) { + if ((args[i] == '"') || (args[i] == '\\') || + (args[i] == '\'')) { if (args[i] == '"') in_quote = !in_quote; if (args[i] == '\\') backslash = 1; - - memmove(args + 1, args, i); - args++; - i--; + if (args[i] == '\'') + in_single = 1; + squash_char; } } else { backslash = 0; -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html