qemu -readconfig/-writeconfig cannot handle quotes in values
Bug #1686364 reported by
Richard Jones
on 2017-04-26
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | QEMU |
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/tmp/foo\" -writeconfig -
# qemu config file
[drive]
file = "/tmp/foo""
For bonus points, try to construct a valid qemu config file that contains a quoted value. It's pretty clear (from looking at the code also) that this is not possible.
Also:
- maximum value length is hard-coded in the parser at 1023 characters (for no apparent reason)
- the format is undocumented
- don't use sscanf for parsing!
Richard Jones (rjones-redhat)
on 2017-04-26
| description: | updated |
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