Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] libxlu_cfg: reject unknown characters following '\'

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:20:57AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> When dequoting config strings in xlu__cfgl_dequote(), unknown
> characters following a '\', and the '\' itself, are discarded.
> E.g. a disk configuration string containing
> 
>   rbd:pool/image:mon_host=192.168.0.100\:6789
> 
> would be dequoted as
> 
>   rbd:pool/image:mon_host=192.168.0.1006789
> 
> Instead of discarding the '\' and unknown character, reject the
> string and set error to EINVAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

applied
> ---
>  tools/libxl/libxlu_cfg.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxlu_cfg.c b/tools/libxl/libxlu_cfg.c
> index 1d70909..5838f68 100644
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxlu_cfg.c
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxlu_cfg.c
> @@ -533,6 +533,11 @@ char *xlu__cfgl_dequote(CfgParseContext *ctx, const char *src) {
>                  NUMERIC_CHAR(2,2,16,"hex");
>              } else if (nc>='0' && nc<='7') {
>                  NUMERIC_CHAR(1,3,10,"octal");
> +            } else {
> +                xlu__cfgl_lexicalerror(ctx,
> +                           "invalid character after backlash in quoted string");
> +                ctx->err= EINVAL;
> +                goto x;
>              }
>              assert(p <= src+len-1);
>          } else {
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
> 
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