[PATCH] Ignore trailing whitespace on kernel parameters correctly

Dave Jones says:

... if the modprobe.conf has trailing whitespace, modules fail to load
with the following helpful message..

	snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `'

Previous version truncated last argument.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index fbf173215fd217bed3db643ba0676916f7085daf..1a8614bac5d5c819110ae67bd21efca75845b600 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -80,8 +80,6 @@ static char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val)
        int in_quote = 0, quoted = 0;
        char *next;
 
-       /* Chew any extra spaces */
-       while (*args == ' ') args++;
        if (*args == '"') {
                args++;
                in_quote = 1;
@@ -121,6 +119,10 @@ static char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val)
                next = args + i + 1;
        } else
                next = args + i;
+
+       /* Chew up trailing spaces. */
+       while (*next == ' ')
+               next++;
        return next;
 }
 
@@ -135,6 +137,10 @@ int parse_args(const char *name,
 
        DEBUGP("Parsing ARGS: %s\n", args);
 
+       /* Chew leading spaces */
+       while (*args == ' ')
+               args++;
+
        while (*args) {
                int ret;