[PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variables

[PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variables

[Werner Almesberger]

The kernel currently allows boot parameters to be quoted (so
that they can contain spaces) in the following way:

param="value"

Unfortunately, when init/main.c:unknown_bootoption reconstructs
the parameter line for environment variables, it does not expect
that there could be two \0s between the parameter name and its
value. My patch corrects this by shifting the parameter name.

The patch is for 2.6.7, but also works with 2.6.8.1. Furthermore,
I've checked that nothing relevant seems to have changed until
2.6.9-rc3.

- Werner

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Signed-off-by: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>

--- linux-2.6.7/init/main.c.orig	Sun Oct  3 03:27:12 2004
+++ linux-2.6.7/init/main.c	Sun Oct  3 03:44:54 2004
@@ -246,8 +246,14 @@
 static int __init unknown_bootoption(char *param, char *val)
 {
 	/* Change NUL term back to "=", to make "param" the whole string. */
-	if (val)
+	if (val) {
 		val[-1] = '=';
+		/* If the value was quoted, shift the parameter name. */
+		if (!val[-2]) {
+			memmove(param+1,param,strlen(param));
+			param++;
+		}
+	}
 
 	/* Handle obsolete-style parameters */
 	if (obsolete_checksetup(param))

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