This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tools: bpftool: Remove invalid \' json escape to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tools-bpftool-remove-invalid-json-escape.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8995b610141ddd2f02fd6eab476b01ec945ed98d Author: Luis Gerhorst <gerhorst@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Feb 27 16:08:54 2023 +0100 tools: bpftool: Remove invalid \' json escape [ Upstream commit c679bbd611c08b0559ffae079330bc4e5574696a ] RFC8259 ("The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format") only specifies \", \\, \/, \b, \f, \n, \r, and \r as valid two-character escape sequences. This does not include \', which is not required in JSON because it exclusively uses double quotes as string separators. Solidus (/) may be escaped, but does not have to. Only reverse solidus (\), double quotes ("), and the control characters have to be escaped. Therefore, with this fix, bpftool correctly supports all valid two-character escape sequences (but still does not support characters that require multi-character escape sequences). Witout this fix, attempting to load a JSON file generated by bpftool using Python 3.10.6's default json.load() may fail with the error "Invalid \escape" if the file contains the invalid escaped single quote (\'). Fixes: b66e907cfee2 ("tools: bpftool: copy JSON writer from iproute2 repository") Signed-off-by: Luis Gerhorst <gerhorst@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230227150853.16863-1-gerhorst@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/json_writer.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/json_writer.c index 7fea83bedf488..bca5dd0a59e34 100644 --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/json_writer.c +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/json_writer.c @@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ static void jsonw_puts(json_writer_t *self, const char *str) case '"': fputs("\\\"", self->out); break; - case '\'': - fputs("\\\'", self->out); - break; default: putc(*str, self->out); }