Single-word cmd line values for orted are dealt with in orte_plm_base_orted_append_basic_args, so protect against special characters there. Have the rsh module only deal with multi-word arguments as those were skipped by orte_plm_base_orted_append_basic_args.

Refs trac:4802

This commit was SVN r32293.

The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 4802 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4802

orte/mca/plm/base/plm_base_launch_support.c

@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ int orte_plm_base_orted_append_basic_args(int *argc, char ***argv,
     char *param = NULL;
     const char **tmp_value;
     int loc_id;
-    char * tmp_force = NULL;
+    char *tmp_force = NULL;
     int i, j, cnt, rc;
     orte_job_t *jdata;
     char *rml_uri;
@@ -1302,10 +1302,15 @@ int orte_plm_base_orted_append_basic_args(int *argc, char ***argv,
                 }
             }
             if (!ignore) {
-                /* must be okay - pass it along */
+                /* even if it is a single word, we have to try and quote it
+                 * because it could contain a special character like a colon
+                 * or semicolon */
+                (void)asprintf(&tmp_force, "\"%s\"", orted_cmd_line[i+2]);
+                /* pass it along */
                 opal_argv_append(argc, argv, orted_cmd_line[i]);
                 opal_argv_append(argc, argv, orted_cmd_line[i+1]);
-                opal_argv_append(argc, argv, orted_cmd_line[i+2]);
+                opal_argv_append(argc, argv, tmp_force);
+                free(tmp_force);
             }
         }
     }

orte/mca/plm/rsh/plm_rsh_module.c

@@ -568,13 +568,15 @@ static int setup_launch(int *argcptr, char ***argvptr,
     
     /* in the rsh environment, we can append multi-word arguments
      * by enclosing them in quotes. Check for any multi-word
-     * mca params passed to mpirun and include them
+     * mca params passed to mpirun and include them - they were
+     * excluded in append_basic_args
      */
     cnt = opal_argv_count(orted_cmd_line);    
     for (i=0; i < cnt; i+=3) {
-        /* there could be multi-word values here, or
+        if (NULL != strchr(orted_cmd_line[i+2], ' ')) {
-         * values with special characters, so protect
+            continue;
-         * the value with quotes */
+        }
+        /* protect the value with quotes */
         (void)asprintf(&param, "\"%s\"", orted_cmd_line[i+2]);
         /* now pass it along */
         opal_argv_append(&argc, &argv, orted_cmd_line[i]);