Re: [PATCH 1/3] configure: quote command line arguments in config.status

[Eric Blake]

On 9/13/20 5:05 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>   configure | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 53723ace57..beae010e39 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >> config.log
>   echo >> config.log
>   echo "#" >> config.log
>   
> +quote_sh() {
> +    printf "'%s'" "$(echo "$1" | sed "s,','\\',")"

This is unsafe if $1 starts with - or contains \.  Better is using 
printf.  It also eats any trailing newlines in $1, although that may be 
less of a concern.

> +}
> +
>   print_error() {
>       (echo
>       echo "ERROR: $1"
> @@ -8061,7 +8065,7 @@ preserve_env WINDRES
>   
>   printf "exec" >>config.status
>   for i in "$0" "$@"; do
> -  test "$i" = --skip-meson || printf " '%s'" "$i" >>config.status
> +  test "$i" = --skip-meson || printf " %s" "$(quote_sh $i)" >>config.status

And this unquoted use of $i is wrong.

>   done
>   echo ' "$@"' >>config.status
>   chmod +x config.status

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