--- /dev/null
+From 0df91939df1da6e72fd14ef2788984685e0aeff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
+Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:26:12 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH iproute2] tc/lexer: let quotes actually start strings
+
+The lexer will go with the longest match, so previously
+the starting double quotes of a string would be swallowed by
+the [^ \t\r\n()]+ pattern leaving the user no way to
+actually use strings with escape sequences.
+Fix this by not allowing this case to start with double
+quotes.
+
+Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
+---
+(Resent as separate thread)
+ tc/emp_ematch.l | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/tc/emp_ematch.l b/tc/emp_ematch.l
+index dc106759..d7a99304 100644
+--- a/tc/emp_ematch.l
++++ b/tc/emp_ematch.l
+@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
+ ")" {
+ return yylval.i = *yytext;
+ }
+-[^ \t\r\n()]+ {
++[^" \t\r\n()][^ \t\r\n()]* {
+ yylval.b = bstr_alloc(yytext);
+ if (yylval.b == NULL)
+ return ERROR;
+--
+2.11.0
+