Ignore BOM in config files

Fixes #2823.

Also remove unnecessary feof check.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/conf-parser.c b/src/shared/conf-parser.c
index e7fe9ac21e..bd0a1f483b 100644
--- a/src/shared/conf-parser.c
+++ b/src/shared/conf-parser.c
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ int config_parse(const char *unit,
         _cleanup_free_ char *section = NULL, *continuation = NULL;
         _cleanup_fclose_ FILE *ours = NULL;
         unsigned line = 0, section_line = 0;
-        bool section_ignored = false;
+        bool section_ignored = false, allow_bom = true;
         int r;
 
         assert(filename);
@@ -314,11 +314,11 @@ int config_parse(const char *unit,
 
         fd_warn_permissions(filename, fileno(f));
 
-        while (!feof(f)) {
-                char l[LINE_MAX], *p, *c = NULL, *e;
+        for (;;) {
+                char buf[LINE_MAX], *l, *p, *c = NULL, *e;
                 bool escaped = false;
 
-                if (!fgets(l, sizeof(l), f)) {
+                if (!fgets(buf, sizeof buf, f)) {
                         if (feof(f))
                                 break;
 
@@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ int config_parse(const char *unit,
                         return -errno;
                 }
 
+                l = buf;
+                if (allow_bom && startswith(l, UTF8_BYTE_ORDER_MARK))
+                        l += strlen(UTF8_BYTE_ORDER_MARK);
+                allow_bom = false;
+
                 truncate_nl(l);
 
                 if (continuation) {