From 5f0ee1b635432c87ac35b6fe99c8e2ebd97ef73d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Fancher <elvishjerricco@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 00:02:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] tmpfiles: Test C-style escape sequences

---
 test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh

diff --git a/test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh b/test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..d6b53601ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+#
+# Test for C-style escapes in file names and contents
+set -eux
+set -o pipefail
+
+data="\x20foo\nbar"
+dst="/tmp/x/\x20a\nb"
+
+systemd-tmpfiles --create - <<EOF
+f     "$dst" 0644 0 0 - $data
+EOF
+
+diff /tmp/x/x20anb <(printf "\x20foo\nbar")

From 4b6621fef34d5270c96731ff8bf997365c06d31d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Fancher <elvishjerricco@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 16:11:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tmpfiles: Allow C escapes

Fixes #26955
---
 src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c       | 2 +-
 test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c b/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
index 518d8012da..e16f26d8d5 100644
--- a/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
+++ b/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
@@ -3358,7 +3358,7 @@ static int parse_line(
         r = extract_many_words(
                         &buffer,
                         NULL,
-                        EXTRACT_UNQUOTE,
+                        EXTRACT_UNQUOTE | EXTRACT_CUNESCAPE,
                         &action,
                         &path,
                         &mode,
diff --git a/test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh b/test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh
index d6b53601ed..f43aba5ad9 100755
--- a/test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh
+++ b/test/units/testsuite-22.17.sh
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ systemd-tmpfiles --create - <<EOF
 f     "$dst" 0644 0 0 - $data
 EOF
 
-diff /tmp/x/x20anb <(printf "\x20foo\nbar")
+diff "$(printf "/tmp/x/\x20a\nb")" <(printf "\x20foo\nbar")