linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] init/main.c: minor cleanup/bugfix of envvar handling

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Message-ID: <20191127192510.GA21877@rani.riverdale.lan>
Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:25:10 -0500
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] init/main.c: minor cleanup/bugfix of envvar
 handling

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 04:40:36PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> unknown_bootoption passes unrecognized command line arguments to init as
> either environment variables or arguments. Some of the logic in the
> function is broken for quoted command line arguments.
> 

Hi Andrew, will you have a chance to look at this patch? If you are not
the correct maintainer, would you be able to point me in the right
direction?

Thanks