Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: parse: deal with zero length string value

[Ian Kent]

On 29/6/22 01:55, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 08:30:52AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > Parsing an fs string that has zero length should result in the parameter
> > being set to NULL so that downstream processing handles it correctly.
> > For example, the proc mount table processing should print "(none)" in
> > this case to preserve mount record field count, but if the value points
> > to the NULL string this doesn't happen.
> 	Hmmm...  And what happens if you feed that to ->parse_param(), which
> calls fs_parse(), which decides that param->key looks like a name of e.g.
> u32 option and calls fs_param_is_u32() to see what's what?  OOPS is a form
> of rejection, I suppose, but...

Oh ... yes, would you be ok with an update that moves the

"param.type = fs_value_is_string;" inside the above else

clause?


Ian