[sos-devel] [PATCH] sosreport: Accept commas, period and alphas in the case number

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:40:00PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
> sosreport does not accept commas, period and alphas in the case
> number, the patch fixes the same.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This is intentional (it's a number). Why do you want to have commas,
periods, and alphas in the ticket number field?

We also use the dash as a field separator in constructed file and
directory names so that is also filtered out by the current
sanitisation.

Regards,
Bryn.

>      def sanitize_ticket_number(self, ticket_number):
> -        return re.sub(r"[^0-9]", "", ticket_number)
> +        return re.sub(r"[^-a-z,A-Z.0-9]", "", ticket_number)