linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] request-key: Fix mishandling of last line of config file

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Message-ID: <2454652.1763567634@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:53:54 +0000
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
    linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] request-key: Fix mishandling of last line of config file

Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org> wrote:

> Just a hypothetical question. What if for spurious reasons the config
> file would have carriage returns?

isspace() considers them as whitespace, so they should be treated as trailing
spaces and ignored normally.

David