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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:38:29 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: escape non-ASCII and control characters in
printk()
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Go back and read what I said originally, and think about it.
>
> You have to look at the IUTF bit of the relevant console you are logging
> to.
The knowledge of what specific console is relevant is unknown at the
moment of printk(). Do you approve only filtering on klogd side?
> But arbitarily blocking anything non ASCII is going to make a mess in
> anything non American. Even English needs UTF-8.
Sure, I don't propose it anymore (v2 goes without it).
Thanks,
--
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
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