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Message-ID: <20110702203323.03462aef@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 20:33:23 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Vasiliy Kulikov
<segoon@...nwall.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: escape non-ASCII and control characters in
printk()
> > Your syslog daemon appears to need improvement
>
> syslogd definitely should (and does) perform escaping of control chars
> for logs written through it.
>
> > and that would be the right fix for dmesg etc.
>
> How? We can't realistically expect everyone to stop invoking dmesg
> directly. Moreover, this is sometimes useful, although someone who is
No but you could make "dmesg" do filtering.
Alan
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