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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:49:22 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, 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>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: escape non-ASCII and
control characters in printk()
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 10:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So saying "%s is for pure 7-bit ASCII with no control codes" is
> annoying, but would really fix it.
Hmm.. It breaks usb UTF-8 strings for sure. I see some printks in
debugging code. There might be other users of UTF-8 strings fed to
printk().
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Vasiliy Kulikov
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