proc-cmdline: allow backslash escapes when parsing /proc/cmdline
authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Tue, 6 Apr 2021 09:45:47 +0000 (11:45 +0200)
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Thu, 6 May 2021 11:52:49 +0000 (13:52 +0200)
commit0e6d3243ad3c5ae719c23e14b159c27344523583
tree8e11664d52b879848c3d50ea2a772609029dfca6
parent215800c434174d4bb0be6bc7ccc1a1a5d1ea123a
proc-cmdline: allow backslash escapes when parsing /proc/cmdline

So far when parsing /proc/cmdline we'd consider backslashes as
mechanisms for escaping whitepace or quotes. This changes things so that
they are retained as they are instead. The kernel itself doesn't allow such
escaping, and hence we shouldn't do so either (see lib/cmdline.c in the
kernel sources; it does support "" quotes btw).

This fix is useful to allow specifying backslash escapes in the "root="
cmdline option to be passed through to systemd-fstab-generator. Example:

    root=/dev/disk/by-partlabel/Root\x20Partition

Previously we'd eat up the "\" so that we'd then look for a device
/dev/disk/by-partlabel/Rootx20Partition which never shows up.

(cherry picked from commit d997861ea7dae633174cd80ab55552c020526b62)
src/basic/proc-cmdline.c