the man page for this nonstandardized function has historically
documented it as scanning for a substring; however, this is
functionally incorrect (matches the substring "atime" in the "noatime"
option, for example) and differs from other existing implementations.
with the change made here, it should match glibc and other
implementations, only matching whole options delimited by commas or
separated from a value by an equals sign.
When the pattern was changed from matching any whitespace to just
matching spaces and tabs, a newline started being appended to the
value of the matched field, if that field was a string. For example,
in a 4-field line, the mnt_opts field would have a newline on the end.
This happened because a newline is not a space or a tab, and so was
matched as part of the value before the end of the string was reached.
\n should therefore be added as a character that terminates a value.
This shouldn't interfere with the intention of the change to space and
tab only, as it was trying to make sure that other whitespace like
carriage returns, that should have been part of parsed values, were.
Fixes: f314e133
this matters because the kernel-provided mtab only escapes tabs,
spaces, newlines, and backslashes. it leaves carriage returns, form
feeds, and vertical tabs literal.
As entries in mtab are delimited by spaces, whitespace characters
are escaped as octal sequences. When reading them out, we have to
unescape these sequences to get the proper string.
commit 05973dc3bb made it so that lines
longer than INT_MAX can in theory be read, but did not use a suitable
type for the positions determined by sscanf. we could change to using
size_t, but since the signature for getmntent_r does not admit lines
longer than INT_MAX, it does not make sense to support them in the
legacy thread-unsafe form either -- the principle here is that there
should not be an incentive to use the unsafe function to get added
functionality.
According to fstab(5), the last two fields are optional, but this
wasn't accepted. After this change, only the first field is required,
which matches glibc's behaviour.
Using sscanf as before, it would have been impossible to differentiate
between 0 fields and 4 fields, because sscanf would have returned 0 in
both cases due to the use of assignment suppression and %n for the
string fields (which is important to avoid copying any strings). So
instead, before calling sscanf, initialize every string to the empty
string, and then we can check which strings are empty afterwards to
know how many fields were matched.
overlayfs may have fairly long lines so we use getline to allocate a
buffer dynamically. The buffer will be allocated on first use, expand as
needed, but will never be free'ed.
Downstream bug: http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/5703
Signed-off-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
previously, it was pretty much random which one of these trees a given
function appeared in. they have now been organized into:
src/linux: non-POSIX linux syscalls (possibly shard with other nixen)
src/legacy: various obsolete/legacy functions, mostly wrappers
src/misc: still mostly uncategorized; some misc POSIX, some nonstd
src/crypt: crypt hash functions
further cleanup will be done later.
Rich Felker
Alyssa Ross
q66
Natanael Copa
Timo Teräs