From f1b7295b27ba1f472304f2931bb23df6884b64e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Hahn <sebastian@torproject.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:50:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Disallow command line keywords with more than two dashes as
 prefix.

This might help fix cid 422, where coverity fails to notice that
argv strings are null-escaped.
---
 src/or/config.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/or/config.c b/src/or/config.c
index 5a0ced29d5..1b415ee7a2 100644
--- a/src/or/config.c
+++ b/src/or/config.c
@@ -1563,7 +1563,10 @@ config_get_commandlines(int argc, char **argv, config_line_t **result)
     *new = tor_malloc_zero(sizeof(config_line_t));
     s = argv[i];
 
-    while (*s == '-')
+    /* Each keyword may be prefixed with one or two dashes. */
+    if (*s == '-')
+      s++;
+    if (*s == '-')
       s++;
 
     (*new)->key = tor_strdup(expand_abbrev(&options_format, s, 1, 1));