[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2v] Check that guest names don't contain illegal characters.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 03:50:39PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 22/03/11 15:31, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>From 09b3e6c59b9cacc0263170631a022bd873412390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Richard W.M. Jones<rjones at redhat.com>
> >Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:28:29 +0000
> >Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Check that guest names don't contain illegal characters.
> >
> >---
> >  v2v/virt-v2v.pl |   10 ++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v.pl b/v2v/virt-v2v.pl
> >index a499924..264fe21 100755
> >--- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pl
> >+++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pl
> >@@ -434,6 +434,16 @@ else {
> >  # Decide the name of the guest target.
> >  $output_name = $source->get_name() unless defined $output_name;
> >
> >+# The regexp matches any unicode alphanumeric, underscore, and a range
> >+# of safe ASCII characters.  Note that we include the $output_name
> >+# string directly in XML so it must not contain<  >  &.  Libvirt allows
> >+# any character at all.  Hypervisors running under libvirt (except
> >+# libvirt-managed ones like KVM) will probably be more strict than
> >+# this simple test.
> >+v2vdie __x('Domain {name} contains illegal characters.  Use the "-on" option to rename the guest.',
> >+           name =>  $output_name)
> >+    if $output_name !~ m{^[-#\$%()*+,./:;=?\@{}\[\]\^\w]+$}i;
> >+
> >  # Check that the guest doesn't already exist on the target
> >  v2vdie __x('Domain {name} already exists on the target.',
> >             name =>  $output_name)
> >-- 1.7.4.1
> 
> Is there any reason for this restriction other than the XML escaping
> issue? If not, I'd prefer to fix the escaping directly and leave
> this out.

Whichever you're happy with, but I think it needs to be fixed
one way or the other.

Rich.

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