[PATCH v2 2/2] discover/syslinux-parser: filter out duplicate conf files

Brett Grandbois brett.grandbois at opengear.com
Wed Apr 18 10:20:44 AEST 2018


in case insensitive filesystems like vfat the duplicate conf file list
will create duplicate boot options.  to filter that out store the struct
stat of each parsed conf file and compare inodes
---
 discover/syslinux-parser.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/discover/syslinux-parser.c b/discover/syslinux-parser.c
index 50e798a..7f6bb0b 100644
--- a/discover/syslinux-parser.c
+++ b/discover/syslinux-parser.c
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ struct syslinux_options {
 	char *cfg_dir;
 };
 
+struct conf_file_stat {
+	char *name;
+	struct stat stat;
+	struct list_item list;
+};
 
 static const char *const syslinux_conf_files[] = {
 	"/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg",
@@ -416,9 +421,12 @@ fail:
 
 static int syslinux_parse(struct discover_context *dc)
 {
+	struct conf_file_stat *confcmp, *confdat, *tmp;
+	struct list processed_conf_files;
 	struct syslinux_options *state;
 	const char * const *filename;
 	struct conf_context *conf;
+	struct stat statbuf;
 	char *cfg_dir;
 	int len, rc;
 	char *buf;
@@ -441,6 +449,8 @@ static int syslinux_parse(struct discover_context *dc)
 	conf->parser_info = state = talloc_zero(conf, struct syslinux_options);
 	list_init(&state->processed_options);
 
+	list_init(&processed_conf_files);
+
 	/*
 	 * set the global defaults
 	 * by spec 'default' defaults to 'linux' and
@@ -453,10 +463,37 @@ static int syslinux_parse(struct discover_context *dc)
 	conf_set_global_option(conf, "append", "");
 
 	for (filename = syslinux_conf_files; *filename; filename++) {
+		/*
+		 * guard against duplicate entries in case-insensitive
+		 * filesystems, mainly vfat boot partitions
+		 */
+		rc = parser_stat_path(dc, dc->device, *filename, &statbuf);
+		if (rc)
+			continue;
+
+		rc = 0;
+
+		list_for_each_entry_safe(&processed_conf_files, confcmp, tmp, list) {
+			if (confcmp->stat.st_ino == statbuf.st_ino) {
+				pb_log("conf file %s is a path duplicate of %s..skipping\n",
+				       *filename, confcmp->name);
+				rc = 1;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+
+		if (rc)
+			continue;
+
 		rc = parser_request_file(dc, dc->device, *filename, &buf, &len);
 		if (rc)
 			continue;
 
+		confdat = talloc_zero(conf, struct conf_file_stat);
+		confdat->stat = statbuf;
+		confdat->name = talloc_strdup(confdat, *filename);
+		list_add(&processed_conf_files, &confdat->list);
+
 		/*
 		 * save location of root config file for possible
 		 * INCLUDE directives later
-- 
2.7.4



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