ini: only recognize comments at beginning of line

Allows the hash sign to be used in values in config files and hooks.

Fixes #48702

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/common/ini.c b/src/common/ini.c
index c0979437..e6437de3 100644
--- a/src/common/ini.c
+++ b/src/common/ini.c
@@ -61,19 +61,14 @@ int parse_ini(const char *file, ini_parser_fn cb, void *data)
 	}
 
 	while(safe_fgets(line, PATH_MAX, fp)) {
-		char *key, *value, *ptr;
+		char *key, *value;
 		size_t line_len;
 
 		linenum++;
 
-		/* ignore whole line and end of line comments */
-		if((ptr = strchr(line, '#'))) {
-			*ptr = '\0';
-		}
-
 		line_len = strtrim(line);
 
-		if(line_len == 0) {
+		if(line_len == 0 || line[0] == '#') {
 			continue;
 		}