From dfe2247a43d6a216d9af533825c9a103e3b056cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:16:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dracut.sh: add check for invalid configuration files

Emit a warning about possible misconfigured configuration files, where
the spaces around values are missing for +=""

Better report a possible source of problems. We can fix annoying false
positives later.
---
 dracut.sh | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dracut.sh b/dracut.sh
index 39fa3692..81c6d654 100755
--- a/dracut.sh
+++ b/dracut.sh
@@ -279,6 +279,14 @@ read_arg() {
     fi
 }
 
+check_conf_file()
+{
+    if grep -H -e '^[^#]*[+]=\("[^ ]\|.*[^ ]"\)' "$@"; then
+        printf '\ndracut: WARNING: <key>+=" <values> ": <values> should have surrounding white spaces!\n' >&2
+        printf 'dracut: WARNING: This will lead to unwanted side effects! Please fix the configuration file.\n\n' >&2
+    fi
+}
+
 dropindirs_sort()
 {
     local suffix=$1; shift
@@ -703,10 +711,14 @@ if [[ ! -d $confdir ]]; then
 fi
 
 # source our config file
-[[ -f $conffile ]] && . "$conffile"
+if [[ -f $conffile ]]; then
+    check_conf_file "$conffile"
+    . "$conffile"
+fi
 
 # source our config dir
 for f in $(dropindirs_sort ".conf" "$confdir" "$dracutbasedir/dracut.conf.d"); do
+    check_conf_file "$f"
     [[ -e $f ]] && . "$f"
 done