diff -up util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/read.c.kzak util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/read.c
--- util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/read.c.kzak	2013-06-13 09:46:10.421650630 +0200
+++ util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/read.c	2014-11-27 15:02:18.559969208 +0100
@@ -252,15 +252,30 @@ static int parse_token(char **name, char
 	*value = skip_over_blank(*value + 1);
 
 	if (**value == '"') {
-		end = strchr(*value + 1, '"');
-		if (!end) {
+		char *p = end = *value + 1;
+
+		/* convert 'foo\"bar'  to 'foo"bar' */
+		while (*p) {
+			if (*p == '\\') {
+				p++;
+				*end = *p;
+			} else {
+				*end = *p;
+				if (*p == '"')
+					break;
+			}
+			p++;
+			end++;
+		}
+
+		if (*end != '"') {
 			DBG(READ, blkid_debug("unbalanced quotes at: %s", *value));
 			*cp = *value;
 			return -BLKID_ERR_CACHE;
 		}
 		(*value)++;
 		*end = '\0';
-		end++;
+		end = ++p;
 	} else {
 		end = skip_over_word(*value);
 		if (*end) {
diff -up util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/save.c.kzak util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/save.c
--- util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/save.c.kzak	2013-07-30 10:39:26.209738269 +0200
+++ util-linux-2.23.2/libblkid/src/save.c	2014-11-27 15:02:18.559969208 +0100
@@ -23,6 +23,21 @@
 #endif
 #include "blkidP.h"
 
+
+static void save_quoted(const char *data, FILE *file)
+{
+	const char *p;
+
+	fputc('"', file);
+	for (p = data; p && *p; p++) {
+		if ((unsigned char) *p == 0x22 ||		/* " */
+		    (unsigned char) *p == 0x5c)			/* \ */
+			fputc('\\', file);
+
+		fputc(*p, file);
+	}
+	fputc('"', file);
+}
 static int save_dev(blkid_dev dev, FILE *file)
 {
 	struct list_head *p;
@@ -40,9 +55,14 @@ static int save_dev(blkid_dev dev, FILE
 
 	if (dev->bid_pri)
 		fprintf(file, " PRI=\"%d\"", dev->bid_pri);
+
 	list_for_each(p, &dev->bid_tags) {
 		blkid_tag tag = list_entry(p, struct blkid_struct_tag, bit_tags);
-		fprintf(file, " %s=\"%s\"", tag->bit_name,tag->bit_val);
+
+		fputc(' ', file);			/* space between tags */
+		fputs(tag->bit_name, file);		/* tag NAME */
+		fputc('=', file);			/* separator between NAME and VALUE */
+		save_quoted(tag->bit_val, file);	/* tag "VALUE" */
 	}
 	fprintf(file, ">%s</device>\n", dev->bid_name);
 
diff -up util-linux-2.23.2/lib/tt.c.kzak util-linux-2.23.2/lib/tt.c
--- util-linux-2.23.2/lib/tt.c.kzak	2013-07-15 10:25:46.280049032 +0200
+++ util-linux-2.23.2/lib/tt.c	2014-11-27 15:02:18.560969219 +0100
@@ -672,6 +672,8 @@ void tt_fputs_quoted(const char *data, F
 	for (p = data; p && *p; p++) {
 		if ((unsigned char) *p == 0x22 ||		/* " */
 		    (unsigned char) *p == 0x5c ||		/* \ */
+		    (unsigned char) *p == 0x60 ||		/* ` */
+		    (unsigned char) *p == 0x24 ||		/* $ */
 		    !isprint((unsigned char) *p) ||
 		    iscntrl((unsigned char) *p)) {
 
diff -up util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.8.kzak util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.8
--- util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.8.kzak	2013-06-13 09:46:10.446650844 +0200
+++ util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.8	2014-11-27 15:02:18.560969219 +0100
@@ -193,7 +193,10 @@ partitions.  This output format is \fBDE
 .TP
 .B export
 print key=value pairs for easy import into the environment; this output format
-is automatically enabled when I/O Limits (\fB-i\fR option) are requested
+is automatically enabled when I/O Limits (\fB-i\fR option) are requested.
+
+The non-printing characters are encoded by ^ and M- notation and all
+potentially unsafe characters are escaped.
 .RE
 .TP
 .BI \-O " offset"
diff -up util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.c.kzak util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.c
--- util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.c.kzak	2014-11-27 15:02:18.560969219 +0100
+++ util-linux-2.23.2/misc-utils/blkid.c	2014-11-27 15:05:34.770244516 +0100
@@ -106,8 +106,10 @@ static void usage(int error)
 /*
  * This function does "safe" printing.  It will convert non-printable
  * ASCII characters using '^' and M- notation.
+ *
+ * If 'esc' is defined then escape all chars from esc by \.
  */
-static void safe_print(const char *cp, int len)
+static void safe_print(const char *cp, int len, const char *esc)
 {
 	unsigned char	ch;
 
@@ -124,7 +126,9 @@ static void safe_print(const char *cp, i
 			if ((ch < 32) || (ch == 0x7f)) {
 				fputc('^', stdout);
 				ch ^= 0x40; /* ^@, ^A, ^B; ^? for DEL */
-			}
+
+			} else if (esc && strchr(esc, ch))
+				fputc('\\', stdout);
 		}
 		fputc(ch, stdout);
 	}
@@ -301,7 +305,7 @@ static void print_value(int output, int
 			printf("DEVNAME=%s\n", devname);
 		fputs(name, stdout);
 		fputs("=", stdout);
-		safe_print(value, valsz);
+		safe_print(value, valsz, " \\\"'$`<>");
 		fputs("\n", stdout);
 
 	} else {
@@ -309,7 +313,7 @@ static void print_value(int output, int
 			printf("%s: ", devname);
 		fputs(name, stdout);
 		fputs("=\"", stdout);
-		safe_print(value, valsz);
+		safe_print(value, valsz, "\"\\");
 		fputs("\" ", stdout);
 	}
 }