Cleaning out my INBOX, I stumbled across this old patch. On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:33:17 +0100 Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting characters are now removed from the parameter so value always > follows directly after the NUL terminating parameter name. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> > --- > init/main.c | 13 ++++--------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > Since the previous "[PATCH v9 3/8] lib/cmdline.c: add backslash support to > kernel commandline parsing" adds the memmove in lib/cmdline.c it is now > superfluous in init/main.c I don't believe the above patches were ever applied. Were they? -- Steve > > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c > index 1f5fdedbb293..1e5b1dc940d9 100644 > --- a/init/main.c > +++ b/init/main.c > @@ -244,15 +244,10 @@ static int __init repair_env_string(char *param, char > *val, > const char *unused, void *arg) > { > if (val) { > - /* param=val or param="val"? */ > - if (val == param+strlen(param)+1) > - val[-1] = '='; > - else if (val == param+strlen(param)+2) { > - val[-2] = '='; > - memmove(val-1, val, strlen(val)+1); > - val--; > - } else > - BUG(); > + int parm_len = strlen(param); > + > + param[parm_len] = '='; > + BUG_ON(val != param + parm_len + 1); > } > return 0; > }

