Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add mount option parsing facility to text-based mount.nfs

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

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Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday September 25, chuck.lever@oracle.com wrote:
>> Hi Neil-
>>
>> Seven more patches for text-based mount.nfs.
>>
>> I found that it is necessary to do some rather advanced lexical parsing of
>> the mount option string in order to handle version/protocol fallback.  So I've
>> implemented a data structure that can handle the parsing requirements, and
>> some wrapper logic to convert the mount option string to the new data
>> structure and then convert it back to a string before calling mount(2).
>>
>> This series introduces the new facility and makes use of it for existing text-
>> based mount option processing (like adding "addr=" and so on).  In subsequent
>> patches I will make more use of the new facility.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> However: The current parsing of mount options (parse_opts,
> parse_options) allows for "quotes" around options so that an option
> can contain a comma (Gumble SELinux Grumble  context=foo,bar Grumble).
> Your mount option parsing doesn't allow for this.  Should it?

I thought it did, but I didn't test this explicitly.  It uses the same 
tokenization logic that legacy NFSv4 does, so I assumed quoting would 
work correctly.

Should I copy the ugly logic from nfsmount.c ?

(At this point, not sure the kernel option parser would support quoting 
either...)

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