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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-02-13 19:33:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-02-13 19:33:39 -0800
commit770aaedb461a055f79b971d538678942b6607894 (patch)
tree63c107a231f68d426cb4c9670189fe1c390f259e
parent3c6e577d5ae705edebed9882ff474d7a48a47dd2 (diff)
parent8c5d862fcb2116ebf5ce762a82db827a38a7d8ee (diff)
Merge tag 'bootconfig-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull bootconfig updates from Masami Hiramatsu: - Update the bootconfig parser to stop searching for a value when it encounters a newline character - Update the tests for bootconfig parser to ensure the good examples to be parsed correctly by comparing the expected results * tag 'bootconfig-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: bootconfig: Check the parsed output of the good examples bootconfig: Terminate value search if it hits a newline
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst24
-rw-r--r--lib/bootconfig.c27
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-after-comment.bconf4
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-in-next-line.bconf4
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-array-space-comment.bconf1
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-comment-after-value.bconf1
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-append.bconf2
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv1.bconf2
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv2.bconf2
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv3.bconf5
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-override.bconf2
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-override.bconf4
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-printables.bconf2
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-simple.bconf8
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-single.bconf3
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-space-after-value.bconf1
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-tree.bconf8
-rw-r--r--tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf3
-rwxr-xr-xtools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh3
19 files changed, 88 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
index 7a86042c9b6d..f712758472d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
@@ -20,18 +20,26 @@ Config File Syntax
The boot config syntax is a simple structured key-value. Each key consists
of dot-connected-words, and key and value are connected by ``=``. The value
-has to be terminated by semi-colon (``;``) or newline (``\n``).
-For array value, array entries are separated by comma (``,``). ::
-
- KEY[.WORD[...]] = VALUE[, VALUE2[...]][;]
-
-Unlike the kernel command line syntax, spaces are OK around the comma and ``=``.
+string has to be terminated by the following delimiters described below.
Each key word must contain only alphabets, numbers, dash (``-``) or underscore
(``_``). And each value only contains printable characters or spaces except
for delimiters such as semi-colon (``;``), new-line (``\n``), comma (``,``),
hash (``#``) and closing brace (``}``).
+If the ``=`` is followed by whitespace up to one of these delimiters, the
+key is assigned an empty value.
+
+For arrays, the array values are comma (``,``) separated, and comments and
+line breaks with newline (``\n``) are allowed between array values for
+readability. Thus the first entry of the array must be on the same line as
+the key.::
+
+ KEY[.WORD[...]] = VALUE[, VALUE2[...]][;]
+
+Unlike the kernel command line syntax, white spaces (including tabs) are
+ignored around the comma and ``=``.
+
If you want to use those delimiters in a value, you can use either double-
quotes (``"VALUE"``) or single-quotes (``'VALUE'``) to quote it. Note that
you can not escape these quotes.
@@ -138,8 +146,8 @@ This is parsed as below::
foo = value
bar = 1, 2, 3
-Note that you can not put a comment between value and delimiter(``,`` or
-``;``). This means following config has a syntax error ::
+Note that you can NOT put a comment or a newline between value and delimiter
+(``,`` or ``;``). This means following config has a syntax error ::
key = 1 # comment
,2
diff --git a/lib/bootconfig.c b/lib/bootconfig.c
index 81f29c29f47b..449369a60846 100644
--- a/lib/bootconfig.c
+++ b/lib/bootconfig.c
@@ -557,17 +557,13 @@ static int __init __xbc_close_brace(char *p)
/*
* Return delimiter or error, no node added. As same as lib/cmdline.c,
* you can use " around spaces, but can't escape " for value.
+ * *@__v must point real value string. (not including spaces before value.)
*/
static int __init __xbc_parse_value(char **__v, char **__n)
{
char *p, *v = *__v;
int c, quotes = 0;
- v = skip_spaces(v);
- while (*v == '#') {
- v = skip_comment(v);
- v = skip_spaces(v);
- }
if (*v == '"' || *v == '\'') {
quotes = *v;
v++;
@@ -617,6 +613,13 @@ static int __init xbc_parse_array(char **__v)
last_parent = xbc_node_get_child(last_parent);
do {
+ /* Search the next array value beyond comments and empty lines */
+ next = skip_spaces(*__v);
+ while (*next == '#') {
+ next = skip_comment(next);
+ next = skip_spaces(next);
+ }
+ *__v = next;
c = __xbc_parse_value(__v, &next);
if (c < 0)
return c;
@@ -701,9 +704,17 @@ static int __init xbc_parse_kv(char **k, char *v, int op)
if (ret)
return ret;
- c = __xbc_parse_value(&v, &next);
- if (c < 0)
- return c;
+ v = skip_spaces_until_newline(v);
+ /* If there is a comment, this has an empty value. */
+ if (*v == '#') {
+ next = skip_comment(v);
+ *v = '\0';
+ c = '\n';
+ } else {
+ c = __xbc_parse_value(&v, &next);
+ if (c < 0)
+ return c;
+ }
child = xbc_node_get_child(last_parent);
if (child && xbc_node_is_value(child)) {
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-after-comment.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-after-comment.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fdb6d4e04447
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-after-comment.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# the first array value must be on the same line as the key
+key = # comment
+ value1,
+ value2
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-in-next-line.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-in-next-line.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..95a99a3bde8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-in-next-line.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# the first array value must be on the same line as the key
+key =
+ value1,
+ value2
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-array-space-comment.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-array-space-comment.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8d3278fa6af5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-array-space-comment.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+key = "value1", "value2", "value3";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-comment-after-value.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-comment-after-value.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a8e8450db3c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-comment-after-value.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+key = "value";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-append.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-append.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c2b407901ddd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-append.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+key = "foo", "bar";
+keyx.subkey = "value";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv1.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv1.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8346287d9251
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv1.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+key = "value";
+key.subkey = "another-value";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv2.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv2.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..40c6232c7cdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv2.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+key = "another-value";
+key.subkey = "value";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv3.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv3.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8368a7bef60a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-kv3.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+key = "value";
+key {
+ subkey1;
+ subkey2 = "foo";
+}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-override.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-override.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..58757712ca45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-mixed-override.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+key = "value2";
+key.foo = "bar";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-override.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-override.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..00bbd30e99ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-override.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+key {
+ word = "2", "3";
+ new.word = "new";
+}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-printables.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-printables.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5981d304eacb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-printables.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+key = "
+ !#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-simple.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-simple.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d17f39421c86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-simple.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+key {
+ word1 = "1";
+ word2 = "2";
+ word3 = "3";
+ word4 = "4";
+ word5 = "5";
+ word6 = "6";
+}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-single.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-single.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..01196910d7f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-single.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+key = "1";
+key2 = "2";
+key3 = "alpha", "beta";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-space-after-value.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-space-after-value.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a8e8450db3c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-space-after-value.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+key = "value";
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-tree.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-tree.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b711d38d86fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/exp-good-tree.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+key {
+ word.tree.value = "0";
+ word2.tree.value = "1", "2";
+}
+other.tree {
+ value = "2";
+ value2 = "3";
+}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf
index 45b938dc0695..416fa2ed4109 100644
--- a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-key = # comment
- "value1", # comment1
+key = "value1", # comment1
"value2" , # comment2
"value3"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
index 7594659af1e1..be9bd18b1d56 100755
--- a/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ done
echo "=== expected success cases ==="
for i in samples/good-* ; do
xpass $BOOTCONF -a $i $INITRD
+ x="samples/exp-"`basename $i`
+ $BOOTCONF $i > $TEMPCONF
+ xpass diff $x $TEMPCONF
done