The command line has been processed by grub shell, then the result is expected to be passed to kernel command line as verbatim according to the grub manual [1][2].
This patch removes extra escape character added as it helps nothing but only creates trouble as you want them to be literal. Besides the surrounding double-quotes added is kept as it used to protect space. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/linux.html#linux [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/xen_005fhypervisor.html Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com> --- grub-core/lib/cmdline.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/grub-core/lib/cmdline.c b/grub-core/lib/cmdline.c index d5e10ee87..26b8131c8 100644 --- a/grub-core/lib/cmdline.c +++ b/grub-core/lib/cmdline.c @@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ static unsigned int check_arg (char *c, int *has_space) while (*c) { - if (*c == '\\' || *c == '\'' || *c == '"') - size++; - else if (*c == ' ') + if (*c == ' ') space = 1; size++; @@ -84,13 +82,7 @@ int grub_create_loader_cmdline (int argc, char *argv[], char *buf, *buf++ = '"'; while (*c) - { - if (*c == '\\' || *c == '\'' || *c == '"') - *buf++ = '\\'; - - *buf++ = *c; - c++; - } + *buf++ = *c++; if (space) *buf++ = '"'; -- 2.16.1 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
