Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:54:20 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Escape unsafe characters for kern.geom.confxml XML dump Message-ID: <4B9B7CEC.4050809@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20100313083551.GB966@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi> References: <20100313083551.GB966@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
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on 13/03/2010 10:35 Jaakko Heinonen said the following: > Hi, > > I intend to commit following patch unless there are objections. I have > seen the problem commonly reported by FreeBSD users. > > --- > > Escape characters unsafe for XML output in GEOM class, instance and provider > names. > > - Characters in range 0x01-0x1f except '\t', '\n', and '\r' are replaced > with '?'. Those characters are disallowed in XML. > - '&', '<', '>', '\'', '"' and characters in range 0x7f-0xff are replaced > with XML numeric character reference. > > If the kern.geom.confxml sysctl provides invalid XML, libgeom > geom_xml2tree() fails and utilities using it do not work. Unsafe > characters are common in msdosfs and cd9660 labels. > > PR: kern/104389 > Submitter by: Doug Steinwand (original version) Thank you for taking care of this one. -- Andriy Gapon
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