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-rw-r--r--changes/bug79504
-rw-r--r--src/common/util.c19
-rw-r--r--src/common/util.h7
-rw-r--r--src/or/confparse.c5
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug7950 b/changes/bug7950
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e62cca07a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug7950
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
+ quoted string, log an actual error message. Fix for bug 7950;
+ bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c
index 144f472d9..d297cb2db 100644
--- a/src/common/util.c
+++ b/src/common/util.c
@@ -2501,10 +2501,13 @@ unescape_string(const char *s, char **result, size_t *size_out)
* key portion and *<b>value_out</b> to a new string holding the value portion
* of the line, and return a pointer to the start of the next line. If we run
* out of data, return a pointer to the end of the string. If we encounter an
- * error, return NULL.
+ * error, return NULL and set *<b>err_out</b> (if provided) to an error
+ * message.
*/
const char *
-parse_config_line_from_str(const char *line, char **key_out, char **value_out)
+parse_config_line_from_str_verbose(const char *line, char **key_out,
+ char **value_out,
+ const char **err_out)
{
/* I believe the file format here is supposed to be:
FILE = (EMPTYLINE | LINE)* (EMPTYLASTLINE | LASTLINE)?
@@ -2578,12 +2581,18 @@ parse_config_line_from_str(const char *line, char **key_out, char **value_out)
/* Find the end of the line. */
if (*line == '\"') { // XXX No continuation handling is done here
- if (!(line = unescape_string(line, value_out, NULL)))
- return NULL;
+ if (!(line = unescape_string(line, value_out, NULL))) {
+ if (err_out)
+ *err_out = "Invalid escape sequence in quoted string";
+ return NULL;
+ }
while (*line == ' ' || *line == '\t')
++line;
- if (*line && *line != '#' && *line != '\n')
+ if (*line && *line != '#' && *line != '\n') {
+ if (err_out)
+ *err_out = "Excess data after quoted string";
return NULL;
+ }
} else {
/* Look for the end of the line. */
while (*line && *line != '\n' && (*line != '#' || continuation)) {
diff --git a/src/common/util.h b/src/common/util.h
index 11a50ebf1..4b923bf84 100644
--- a/src/common/util.h
+++ b/src/common/util.h
@@ -373,8 +373,11 @@ char *read_file_to_str(const char *filename, int flags, struct stat *stat_out)
char *read_file_to_str_until_eof(int fd, size_t max_bytes_to_read,
size_t *sz_out)
ATTR_MALLOC;
-const char *parse_config_line_from_str(const char *line,
- char **key_out, char **value_out);
+const char *parse_config_line_from_str_verbose(const char *line,
+ char **key_out, char **value_out,
+ const char **err_out);
+#define parse_config_line_from_str(line,key_out,value_out) \
+ parse_config_line_from_str_verbose((line),(key_out),(value_out),NULL)
char *expand_filename(const char *filename);
struct smartlist_t *tor_listdir(const char *dirname);
int path_is_relative(const char *filename);
diff --git a/src/or/confparse.c b/src/or/confparse.c
index 717d4ac2a..98fde98e7 100644
--- a/src/or/confparse.c
+++ b/src/or/confparse.c
@@ -91,12 +91,15 @@ config_get_lines(const char *string, config_line_t **result, int extended)
{
config_line_t *list = NULL, **next;
char *k, *v;
+ const char *parse_err;
next = &list;
do {
k = v = NULL;
- string = parse_config_line_from_str(string, &k, &v);
+ string = parse_config_line_from_str_verbose(string, &k, &v, &parse_err);
if (!string) {
+ log_warn(LD_CONFIG, "Error while parsing configuration: %s",
+ parse_err?parse_err:"<unknown>");
config_free_lines(list);
tor_free(k);
tor_free(v);