[PATCH] bootconfig: Fix to terminate value search if it hits a newline

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

Date: Thu Jan 29 2026 - 23:41:57 EST


From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Fix bootconfig to terminate the value search if it hits a newline
even if it is empty.

When we pass a bootconfig with an empty value terminated by the
newline, like below::

foo =
bar = value

Current bootconfig interprets it as a single entry::

foo = "bar = value";

However, the Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst said that

The value has to be terminated by semi-colon (``;``) or newline (``\n``).

Thus, it should be interpreted as::

foo = "";
bar = "value";

Note that if the line has a comment, it still keep searching the
value to the next line::

foo = # comment
value

This is interpreted as `foo = "value"`.
This also updates the test script so that it can check the above cases.

Fixes: 76db5a27a827 ("bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/bootconfig.c b/lib/bootconfig.c
index 81f29c29f47b..94b55ec32444 100644
--- a/lib/bootconfig.c
+++ b/lib/bootconfig.c
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static int __init __xbc_parse_value(char **__v, char **__n)
char *p, *v = *__v;
int c, quotes = 0;

- v = skip_spaces(v);
+ v = skip_spaces_until_newline(v);
while (*v == '#') {
v = skip_comment(v);
v = skip_spaces(v);
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
index 7594659af1e1..0873883182b0 100755
--- a/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
@@ -171,6 +171,24 @@ $BOOTCONF $INITRD > $OUTFILE
xfail grep -q 'val[[:space:]]' $OUTFILE
xpass grep -q 'val2[[:space:]]' $OUTFILE

+echo "Empty value with ="
+cat > $TEMPCONF << EOF
+foo =
+bar
+EOF
+$BOOTCONF $TEMPCONF > $OUTFILE
+xfail grep 'foo[[:space:]]=[[:space:]]"bar"' $OUTFILE
+xpass grep 'foo[[:space:]]=[[:space:]]"";' $OUTFILE
+
+echo "Continue value after comment"
+cat > $TEMPCONF << EOF
+foo = # comment
+bar
+EOF
+$BOOTCONF $TEMPCONF > $OUTFILE
+xpass grep 'foo[[:space:]]=[[:space:]]"bar"' $OUTFILE
+xfail grep 'foo[[:space:]]=[[:space:]]"";' $OUTFILE
+
echo "=== expected failure cases ==="
for i in samples/bad-* ; do
xfail $BOOTCONF -a $i $INITRD