Re: [PATCH 1/9] rtl8192*: display ESSIDs using %pE

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Sep 06 2019 - 05:38:34 EST


On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 01:53:43PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:44:25PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Everywhere else in the kernel ESSIDs are printed using %pE, and I can't
> > see why there should be an exception here.
>
> I would expand this rationale slightly: using "n" here makes no sense
> because they are already NUL-terminated strings. The "n" modifier could
> only be used with string_escape_mem() which takes a "length" argument.

SSID may have NUL in any location in the name.

> > - snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pEn", essid_len, essid);
> > + snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pE", essid_len, essid);

> > - snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pEn", essid_len, essid);
> > + snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pE", essid_len, essid);

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko