Re: printk()s of user-supplied strings

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 10:21:10 EST



> > Another idea I had was to add a new format specifier to vsnprintf()
> > to explicitly escape the string (eg: "%S"). But there are so many
> > users of printk() to fix then that I'm not sure we would find them
> > all. However, it would be the real fix and not a hack because what
> > we're trying to do is to enforce controls on some data type, which
> > is exactly the point of this solution.
>
> Yes, I had this thought, too. This would be the cleanest solution, but
> I'm afraid that it will fail in practice. People will continue

Please go for the cleanest solution. Anything else is not mergeable.

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