fix several problems with config parser:

 a bug where it underflows the string
 a bug where it never frees parser_t struct
make read_config() return 0 if parser is NULL,
 make config_close() accept and ignore NULL parser -
 eliminates many if() blocks
reverse the sense of parser bit flags - negative flags
 are harder to grok.
hexdump: revert the change to use config parser, it is BIGGER
 and also requires additional quirks in parser
*: explicitly use PARSER_NORMAL instead of 0

function                                             old     new   delta
login_main                                          1575    1596     +21
config_close                                          18      29     +11
bbunpack                                             383     391      +8
qgravechar                                           106     109      +3
rtnl_tab_initialize                                  121     117      -4
expand                                              1697    1693      -4
man_main                                             717     712      -5
nameif_main                                          674     668      -6
hexdump_main                                         597     591      -6
read_config                                          217     209      -8
dnsd_main                                           1478    1470      -8
sysctl_main                                          203     189     -14
config_open2                                          44      25     -19
make_device                                         1177    1141     -36
config_read                                          597     549     -48
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 4/11 up/down: 43/-158)         Total: -115 bytes

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/hexdump.c b/util-linux/hexdump.c
index 8ac12f082..48edd70a9 100644
--- a/util-linux/hexdump.c
+++ b/util-linux/hexdump.c
@@ -16,11 +16,19 @@
 
 static void bb_dump_addfile(dumper_t *dumper, char *name)
 {
-        parser_t *parser = config_open2(name, xfopen_for_read);
-        while (config_read(parser, &name, 1, 1, "# \t", 0)) {
-                bb_dump_add(dumper, name);
+        char *p;
+        FILE *fp;
+        char *buf;
+
+        fp = xfopen_for_read(name);
+        while ((buf = xmalloc_fgetline(fp)) != NULL) {
+                p = skip_whitespace(buf);
+                if (*p && (*p != '#')) {
+                        bb_dump_add(dumper, p);
+                }
+                free(buf);
         }
-        config_close(parser);
+        fclose(fp);
 }
 
 static const char *const add_strings[] = {
diff --git a/util-linux/mdev.c b/util-linux/mdev.c
index f6440b190..d0d010382 100644
--- a/util-linux/mdev.c
+++ b/util-linux/mdev.c
@@ -107,10 +107,7 @@ static void make_device(char *path, int delete)
         parser = config_open2("/etc/mdev.conf", fopen_for_read);
 
         /* If we have config file, look up user settings */
-        if (!parser)
-                goto end_parse;
-
-        while (config_read(parser, tokens, 4, 3, "# \t", PARSE_LAST_IS_GREEDY)) {
+        while (config_read(parser, tokens, 4, 3, "# \t", PARSE_NORMAL)) {
                 regmatch_t off[1 + 9*ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_RENAME_REGEXP];
                 char *val;
 
@@ -244,7 +241,6 @@ static void make_device(char *path, int delete)
         } /* end of "while line is read from /etc/mdev.conf" */
 
         config_close(parser);
- end_parse:
 #endif /* ENABLE_FEATURE_MDEV_CONF */
 
         if (!delete && sscanf(dev_maj_min, "%u:%u", &major, &minor) == 2) {