From 90b5b46341dbba78d8cd98d55d1b9321544c7887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Nikolai Kondrashov <Nikolai.Kondrashov@redhat.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:42:56 +0200

Subject: [PATCH 1/1] valuepair: Don't remove unknown backslash

Don't remove backslash from unknown escape sequences in pairparsevalue,

adhering to behavior common to most other programs dealing with

backslash escape sequences.

---

 src/lib/valuepair.c | 14 ++++++++------

 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/valuepair.c b/src/lib/valuepair.c

index 7d6ee88..7742b81 100644

--- a/src/lib/valuepair.c

+++ b/src/lib/valuepair.c

@@ -1176,12 +1176,14 @@ int pairparsevalue(VALUE_PAIR *vp, char const *value, size_t inlen)

 					c = x;

 					cp += 3;

-				} else if (cp[0]) {

-					/*

-					 *	\p --> p

-					 */

-					c = *cp++;

-				} /* else at EOL \ --> \ */

+				}

+

+				/*

+				 *	Else It's not a recognised escape sequence DON'T

+				 *	consume the backslash. This is identical

+				 *	behaviour to bash and most other things that

+				 *	use backslash escaping.

+				 */

 			}

 			*p++ = c;

 			vp_len++;

-- 

2.1.3