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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:52:38 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        phk@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Escape unsafe characters for kern.geom.confxml XML dump
Message-ID:  <20100315105238.GB3103@garage.freebsd.pl>
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 Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:35:52AM +0200, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I intend to commit following patch unless there are objections. I have
> seen the problem commonly reported by FreeBSD users.
>=20
> ---
>=20
> Escape characters unsafe for XML output in GEOM class, instance and provi=
der
> names.
>=20
> - 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> PR:		kern/104389
> Submitter by:	Doug Steinwand (original version)

Patch looks good and it was something missing for a very long time.
Thanks for taking care of this.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
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