linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cifs: escape spaces in share names

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Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 13:56:01 -0500
From:   Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
To:     Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: escape spaces in share names

Good catch - added one other minor thing, whitespace in share name
could be a space or a tab, so changed that line to:

+               seq_escape(m, devname, " \t");

from
+               seq_escape(m, devname, " ");

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 12:35 AM Maciek Borzecki
<maciek.borzecki@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Commit 653a5efb849a ("cifs: update super_operations to show_devname")
> introduced the display of devname for cifs mounts. However, when mounting
> a share which has a whitespace in the name, that exact share name is also
> displayed in mountinfo. Make sure that all whitespace is escaped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@...il.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> index 099ad9f3660bb28db1b6a9aea9538282b41c6455..3c6cb85b95e207df222248f10cc9df937cdda24e 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> @@ -476,7 +476,8 @@ static int cifs_show_devname(struct seq_file *m, struct dentry *root)
>                 seq_puts(m, "none");
>         else {
>                 convert_delimiter(devname, '/');
> -               seq_puts(m, devname);
> +               /* escape all spaces in share names */
> +               seq_escape(m, devname, " ");
>                 kfree(devname);
>         }
>         return 0;
> --
> 2.31.1
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve

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