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[bug #58283] save_env prepends \0 to grubenv, causing "error: invalid en


From: Clara Short
Subject: [bug #58283] save_env prepends \0 to grubenv, causing "error: invalid environment block."
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 10:37:38 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58283>

                 Summary: save_env prepends \0 to grubenv, causing "error:
invalid environment block."
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: clarity
            Submitted on: Fri 01 May 2020 02:37:36 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Clara Short
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 
                 Release: 2.02
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

= Configuration =

grub> echo $package_version $grub_cpu $grub_platform
2.02-2ubuntu8.15 i386 pc


= Steps to reproduce =
== 1. Initial conditions ==

# rm /boot/grub/grubenv
# grub-editenv - create
# grub-editenv - set foo=bar
# grub-editenv - list
foo=bar
# hexdump -C /boot/grub/grubenv
00000000  23 20 47 52 55 42 20 45  6e 76 69 72 6f 6e 6d 65  |# GRUB
Environme|
00000010  6e 74 20 42 6c 6f 63 6b  0a 66 6f 6f 3d 62 61 72  |nt
Block.foo=bar|
00000020  0a 23 23 23 23 23 23 23  23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 
|.###############|
00000030  23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23  23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 
|################|
*
00000400
# reboot

== 2. Drop to GRUB shell ==

grub> list_env
foo=bar
grub> baz=quux
grub> save_env baz
grub> list_env
error: invalid environment block.
grub> reboot

== 3. Boot into Linux ==

$ grub-editenv - list
grub-editenv: error: invalid environment block.
$ hexdump -C /boot/grub/grubenv
00000000  00 23 20 47 52 55 42 20  45 6e 76 69 72 6f 6e 6d  |.# GRUB
Environm|
00000010  65 6e 74 20 42 6c 6f 63  6b 0a 66 6f 6f 3d 62 61  |ent
Block.foo=ba|
00000020  72 0a 62 61 7a 3d 71 75  75 78 0a 23 23 23 23 23 
|r.baz=quux.#####|
00000030  23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23  23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 
|################|
*
00000400
$ 





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