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load-fragment: allow quoting in command name and document allowed escapes
authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:08:13 +0000 (18:08 -0500)
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:26:21 +0000 (19:26 -0500)
The handling of the command name and other arguments is unified. This
simplifies things and should make them more predictable for users.
Incidentally, this makes ExecStart handling match the .desktop file
specification, apart for the requirment for an absolute path.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86171

man/systemd.service.xml
src/core/load-fragment.c
src/test/test-unit-file.c

index da9079cbb8dfe37aafeae9c534711e7eeb50af0b..0b68aa089072c48a0d4798420fb37bbbc537bdee 100644 (file)
 
                                 <para>For each of the specified
                                 commands, the first argument must be
-                                an absolute and literal path to an
-                                executable. Optionally, if the
-                                absolute file name is prefixed with
-                                <literal>@</literal>, the second token
-                                will be passed as
+                                an absolute path to an executable.
+                                Optionally, if this file name is
+                                prefixed with <literal>@</literal>,
+                                the second token will be passed as
                                 <literal>argv[0]</literal> to the
                                 executed process, followed by the
                                 further arguments specified. If the
 
                 <para>Each command line is split on whitespace, with
                 the first item being the command to execute, and the
-                subsequent items being the arguments.  Double quotes
+                subsequent items being the arguments. Double quotes
                 ("...") and single quotes ('...') may be used, in
                 which case everything until the next matching quote
-                becomes part of the same argument. Quotes themselves
-                are removed after parsing. In addition, a trailing
-                backslash (<literal>\</literal>) may be used to merge
-                lines. </para>
+                becomes part of the same argument. C-style escapes are
+                also supported, see table below. Quotes themselves are
+                removed after parsing and escape sequences
+                substituted. In addition, a trailing backslash
+                (<literal>\</literal>) may be used to merge lines.
+                </para>
 
                 <para>This syntax is intended to be very similar to
                 shell syntax, but only the meta-characters and
                 <emphasis>other elements of shell syntax are not
                 supported</emphasis>.</para>
 
+                <para>The command to execute must an absolute path
+                name. It may contain spaces, but control characters
+                are not allowed.</para>
+
                 <para>The command line accepts <literal>%</literal>
                 specifiers as described in
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
@@ -1253,6 +1258,74 @@ ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO $THREE</programlisting>
                 <literal>&gt;/dev/null</literal>,
                 <literal>&amp;</literal>, <literal>;</literal>, and
                 <literal>/bin/ls</literal>.</para>
+
+                <table>
+                        <title>C escapes supported in command lines and environment variables</title>
+                        <tgroup cols='2'>
+                                <colspec colname='escape' />
+                                <colspec colname='meaning' />
+                                <thead>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry>Literal</entry>
+                                                <entry>Actual value</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                </thead>
+                                <tbody>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\a</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>bell</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\b</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>backspace</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\f</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>form feed</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\n</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>newline</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\r</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>carriage return</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\t</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>tab</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\v</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>vertical tab</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\\</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>backslash</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\"</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>double quotation mark</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\'</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>single quotation mark</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\s</literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>space</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\x<replaceable>xx</replaceable></literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>character number <replaceable>xx</replaceable> in hexadecimal encoding</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                        <row>
+                                                <entry><literal>\<replaceable>nnn</replaceable></literal></entry>
+                                                <entry>character number <replaceable>nnn</replaceable> in octal encoding</entry>
+                                        </row>
+                                </tbody>
+                        </tgroup>
+                </table>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
index 7430036f481f15265be8d8929c526091349ce214..e9659ca344a7e95bd181388bddcee126f6cbf0a5 100644 (file)
@@ -547,9 +547,9 @@ int config_parse_exec(const char *unit,
          * overriding of argv[0]. */
         for (;;) {
                 int i;
-                const char *word, *state;
+                const char *word, *state, *reason;
                 size_t l;
-                bool honour_argv0 = false, ignore = false;
+                bool separate_argv0 = false, ignore = false;
 
                 path = NULL;
                 nce = NULL;
@@ -560,28 +560,23 @@ int config_parse_exec(const char *unit,
                 if (rvalue[0] == 0)
                         break;
 
-                for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
-                        if (rvalue[0] == '-' && !ignore) {
-                                ignore = true;
-                                rvalue ++;
-                        }
-
-                        if (rvalue[0] == '@' && !honour_argv0) {
-                                honour_argv0 = true;
-                                rvalue ++;
-                        }
-                }
-
-                if (*rvalue != '/') {
-                        log_syntax(unit, LOG_ERR, filename, line, EINVAL,
-                                   "Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: %s", rvalue);
-                        return 0;
-                }
-
                 k = 0;
                 FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED(word, l, rvalue, state) {
-                        if (strneq(word, ";", MAX(l, 1U)))
-                                goto found;
+                        if (k == 0) {
+                                for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+                                        if (*word == '-' && !ignore) {
+                                                ignore = true;
+                                                word ++;
+                                        }
+
+                                        if (*word == '@' && !separate_argv0) {
+                                                separate_argv0 = true;
+                                                word ++;
+                                        }
+                                }
+                        } else
+                                if (strneq(word, ";", MAX(l, 1U)))
+                                        goto found;
 
                         k++;
                 }
@@ -592,60 +587,69 @@ int config_parse_exec(const char *unit,
                 }
 
         found:
-                n = new(char*, k + !honour_argv0);
+                n = new(char*, k + !separate_argv0);
                 if (!n)
                         return log_oom();
 
                 k = 0;
                 FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED(word, l, rvalue, state) {
-                        if (strneq(word, ";", MAX(l, 1U)))
-                                break;
-                        else if (strneq(word, "\\;", MAX(l, 1U))) {
-                                word ++;
-                                l --;
-                        }
+                        char *c;
+                        unsigned skip;
 
-                        if (honour_argv0 && word == rvalue) {
-                                assert(!path);
+                        if (separate_argv0 ? path == NULL : k == 0) {
+                                /* first word, very special */
+                                skip = separate_argv0 + ignore;
 
-                                path = strndup(word, l);
-                                if (!path) {
-                                        r = log_oom();
-                                        goto fail;
-                                }
+                                /* skip special chars in the beginning */
+                                assert(skip < l);
 
-                                if (!utf8_is_valid(path)) {
-                                        log_invalid_utf8(unit, LOG_ERR, filename, line, EINVAL, rvalue);
-                                        r = 0;
-                                        goto fail;
-                                }
+                        } else if (strneq(word, ";", MAX(l, 1U)))
+                                /* new commandline */
+                                break;
 
-                        } else {
-                                char *c;
+                        else
+                                skip = strneq(word, "\\;", MAX(l, 1U));
 
-                                c = n[k++] = cunescape_length(word, l);
-                                if (!c) {
-                                        r = log_oom();
-                                        goto fail;
-                                }
+                        c = cunescape_length(word + skip, l - skip);
+                        if (!c) {
+                                r = log_oom();
+                                goto fail;
+                        }
 
-                                if (!utf8_is_valid(c)) {
-                                        log_invalid_utf8(unit, LOG_ERR, filename, line, EINVAL, rvalue);
-                                        r = 0;
-                                        goto fail;
-                                }
+                        if (!utf8_is_valid(c)) {
+                                log_invalid_utf8(unit, LOG_ERR, filename, line, EINVAL, rvalue);
+                                r = 0;
+                                goto fail;
                         }
+
+                        /* where to stuff this? */
+                        if (separate_argv0 && path == NULL)
+                                path = c;
+                        else
+                                n[k++] = c;
                 }
 
                 n[k] = NULL;
 
-                if (!n[0]) {
-                        log_syntax(unit, LOG_ERR, filename, line, EINVAL,
-                                   "Invalid command line, ignoring: %s", rvalue);
-                        r = 0;
-                        goto fail;
-                }
+                log_debug("path: %s", path ?: n[0]);
+
+                if (!n[0])
+                        reason = "Empty executable name or zeroeth argument";
+                else if (!string_is_safe(path ?: n[0]))
+                        reason = "Executable path contains special characters";
+                else if (!path_is_absolute(path ?: n[0]))
+                        reason = "Executable path is not absolute";
+                else if (endswith(path ?: n[0], "/"))
+                        reason = "Executable path specifies a directory";
+                else
+                        goto ok;
+
+                log_syntax(unit, LOG_ERR, filename, line, EINVAL,
+                           "%s, ignoring: %s", reason, rvalue);
+                r = 0;
+                goto fail;
 
+ok:
                 if (!path) {
                         path = strdup(n[0]);
                         if (!path) {
@@ -654,8 +658,6 @@ int config_parse_exec(const char *unit,
                         }
                 }
 
-                assert(path_is_absolute(path));
-
                 nce = new0(ExecCommand, 1);
                 if (!nce) {
                         r = log_oom();
index 08da2ba4eb4f878459629181056e5fda357580fd..6a146a702f85690ad5643bfd2b96219295d794bc 100644 (file)
@@ -74,31 +74,34 @@ static void check_execcommand(ExecCommand *c,
                               const char* argv2,
                               bool ignore) {
         assert_se(c);
-        log_info("%s %s %s %s",
+        log_info("expect: \"%s\" [\"%s\" \"%s\" \"%s\"]",
+                 path, argv0 ?: path, argv1, argv2);
+        log_info("actual: \"%s\" [\"%s\" \"%s\" \"%s\"]",
                  c->path, c->argv[0], c->argv[1], c->argv[2]);
         assert_se(streq(c->path, path));
-        assert_se(streq(c->argv[0], argv0));
-        assert_se(streq(c->argv[1], argv1));
+        assert_se(streq(c->argv[0], argv0 ?: path));
+        assert_se(streq_ptr(c->argv[1], argv1));
         assert_se(streq_ptr(c->argv[2], argv2));
         assert_se(c->ignore == ignore);
 }
 
 static void test_config_parse_exec(void) {
-        /* int config_parse_exec( */
-        /*         const char *filename, */
-        /*         unsigned line, */
-        /*         const char *section, */
-        /*         unsigned section_line, */
-        /*         const char *lvalue, */
-        /*         int ltype, */
-        /*         const char *rvalue, */
-        /*         void *data, */
-        /*         void *userdata) */
+        /* int config_parse_exec(
+                 const char *filename,
+                 unsigned line,
+                 const char *section,
+                 unsigned section_line,
+                 const char *lvalue,
+                 int ltype,
+                 const char *rvalue,
+                 void *data,
+                 void *userdata) */
         int r;
 
         ExecCommand *c = NULL, *c1;
+        const char *ccc;
 
-        /* basic test */
+        log_info("/* basic test */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 1, "section", 1,
                               "LValue", 0, "/RValue r1",
                               &c, NULL);
@@ -106,52 +109,60 @@ static void test_config_parse_exec(void) {
         check_execcommand(c, "/RValue", "/RValue", "r1", NULL, false);
 
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 2, "section", 1,
-                              "LValue", 0, "/RValue///slashes/// r1",
+                              "LValue", 0, "/RValue///slashes r1///",
                               &c, NULL);
-       /* test slashes */
+
+        log_info("/* test slashes */");
         assert_se(r >= 0);
         c1 = c->command_next;
-        check_execcommand(c1, "/RValue/slashes", "/RValue///slashes///", "r1", NULL, false);
+        check_execcommand(c1, "/RValue/slashes", "/RValue///slashes", "r1///", NULL, false);
 
-        /* honour_argv0 */
+        log_info("/* trailing slash */");
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0, "/RValue/ argv0 r1",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r == 0);
+        assert_se(c1->command_next == NULL);
+
+        log_info("/* honour_argv0 */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 3, "section", 1,
-                              "LValue", 0, "@/RValue///slashes2/// argv0 r1",
+                              "LValue", 0, "@/RValue///slashes2 ///argv0 r1",
                               &c, NULL);
         assert_se(r >= 0);
         c1 = c1->command_next;
-        check_execcommand(c1, "/RValue/slashes2", "argv0", "r1", NULL, false);
+        check_execcommand(c1, "/RValue/slashes2", "///argv0", "r1", NULL, false);
 
-        /* ignore && honour_argv0 */
+        log_info("/* ignore && honour_argv0 */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
-                              "LValue", 0, "-@/RValue///slashes3/// argv0a r1",
+                              "LValue", 0, "-@/RValue///slashes3 argv0a r1",
                               &c, NULL);
         assert_se(r >= 0);
         c1 = c1->command_next;
         check_execcommand(c1, "/RValue/slashes3", "argv0a", "r1", NULL, true);
 
-        /* ignore && honour_argv0 */
+        log_info("/* ignore && honour_argv0 */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
-                              "LValue", 0, "@-/RValue///slashes4/// argv0b r1",
+                              "LValue", 0, "@-/RValue///slashes4 argv0b r1",
                               &c, NULL);
         assert_se(r >= 0);
         c1 = c1->command_next;
         check_execcommand(c1, "/RValue/slashes4", "argv0b", "r1", NULL, true);
 
-        /* ignore && ignore */
+        log_info("/* ignore && ignore */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
                               "LValue", 0, "--/RValue argv0 r1",
                               &c, NULL);
         assert_se(r == 0);
         assert_se(c1->command_next == NULL);
 
-        /* ignore && ignore */
+        log_info("/* ignore && ignore (2) */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
                               "LValue", 0, "-@-/RValue argv0 r1",
                               &c, NULL);
         assert_se(r == 0);
         assert_se(c1->command_next == NULL);
 
-        /* semicolon */
+        log_info("/* semicolon */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
                               "LValue", 0,
                               "-@/RValue argv0 r1 ; "
@@ -162,9 +173,9 @@ static void test_config_parse_exec(void) {
         check_execcommand(c1, "/RValue", "argv0", "r1", NULL, true);
 
         c1 = c1->command_next;
-        check_execcommand(c1, "/goo/goo", "/goo/goo", "boo", NULL, false);
+        check_execcommand(c1, "/goo/goo", NULL, "boo", NULL, false);
 
-        /* trailing semicolon */
+        log_info("/* trailing semicolon */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
                               "LValue", 0,
                               "-@/RValue argv0 r1 ; ",
@@ -175,16 +186,16 @@ static void test_config_parse_exec(void) {
 
         assert_se(c1->command_next == NULL);
 
-        /* escaped semicolon */
+        log_info("/* escaped semicolon */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
                               "LValue", 0,
                               "/bin/find \\;",
                               &c, NULL);
         assert_se(r >= 0);
         c1 = c1->command_next;
-        check_execcommand(c1, "/bin/find", "/bin/find", ";", NULL, false);
+        check_execcommand(c1, "/bin/find", NULL, ";", NULL, false);
 
-        /* escaped semicolon with following arg */
+        log_info("/* escaped semicolon with following arg */");
         r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
                               "LValue", 0,
                               "/sbin/find \\; x",
@@ -192,7 +203,86 @@ static void test_config_parse_exec(void) {
         assert_se(r >= 0);
         c1 = c1->command_next;
         check_execcommand(c1,
-                          "/sbin/find", "/sbin/find", ";", "x", false);
+                          "/sbin/find", NULL, ";", "x", false);
+
+        log_info("/* spaces in the filename */");
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0,
+                              "\"/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon\" -1 -2",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r >= 0);
+        c1 = c1->command_next;
+        check_execcommand(c1,
+                          "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon", NULL, "-1", "-2", false);
+
+        log_info("/* spaces in the filename, no args */");
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0,
+                              "\"/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon -1 -2\"",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r >= 0);
+        c1 = c1->command_next;
+        check_execcommand(c1,
+                          "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon -1 -2", NULL, NULL, NULL, false);
+
+        log_info("/* spaces in the filename, everything quoted */");
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0,
+                              "\"/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon\" \"-1\" '-2'",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r >= 0);
+        c1 = c1->command_next;
+        check_execcommand(c1,
+                          "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon", NULL, "-1", "-2", false);
+
+        log_info("/* escaped spaces in the filename */");
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0,
+                              "\"/PATH\\sWITH\\sSPACES/daemon\" '-1 -2'",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r >= 0);
+        c1 = c1->command_next;
+        check_execcommand(c1,
+                          "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon", NULL, "-1 -2", NULL, false);
+
+        log_info("/* escaped spaces in the filename (2) */");
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0,
+                              "\"/PATH\\x20WITH\\x20SPACES/daemon\" \"-1 -2\"",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r >= 0);
+        c1 = c1->command_next;
+        check_execcommand(c1,
+                          "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon", NULL, "-1 -2", NULL, false);
+
+        for (ccc = "abfnrtv\\\'\"x"; *ccc; ccc++) {
+                /* \\x is an incomplete hexadecimal sequence, invalid because of the slash */
+                char path[] = "/path\\X";
+                path[sizeof(path) - 2] = *ccc;
+
+                log_info("/* invalid character: \\%c */", *ccc);
+                r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
+                                      "LValue", 0, path,
+                                      &c, NULL);
+                assert_se(r == 0);
+                assert_se(c1->command_next == NULL);
+        }
+
+        log_info("/* valid character: \\s */");
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0, "/path\\s",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r >= 0);
+        c1 = c1->command_next;
+        check_execcommand(c1, "/path ", NULL, NULL, NULL, false);
+
+        log_info("/* trailing backslash: \\ */");
+        /* backslash is invalid */
+        r = config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1,
+                              "LValue", 0, "/path\\",
+                              &c, NULL);
+        assert_se(r == 0);
+        assert_se(c1->command_next == NULL);
 
         exec_command_free_list(c);
 }