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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xtables: use strspn() to check if string needs to be quoted
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:00:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5CFFD8.8000804@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110214065445.30608.81511.stgit@woodpecker.blarg.de>

Am 14.02.2011 07:54, schrieb Max Kellermann:
> Problem: the call xtables_save_string("'") prints just a single quote,
> not enclosed in double quoted and not escaped.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
>  $ iptables -A foo -m comment --comment "'" -j ACCEPT
>  $ iptables-multi save|grep foo
>  -A foo -m comment --comment ' -j ACCEPT
> 
> The cause was the use of strcspn() to locate the first character which
> justified quoting the string in double quotes.  That however was
> wrong, because the way strcspn() was called, it returned a pointer to
> the first character that was not to be escaped, which did the right
> thing most of the time, but not for strings consisting only of quote
> characters.  This patch changes strcspn() to strspn().

Looks good to me, applied. But please remember to sign off your
patches.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-14  6:54 [PATCH] xtables: use strspn() to check if string needs to be quoted Max Kellermann
2011-02-17 11:00 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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