Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Don't hex dump plaintext password data

From: Ilpo Järvinen

Date: Tue Mar 03 2026 - 07:46:32 EST


On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:30:51 +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:

> set_new_password() hex dumps the entire buffer, which contains plaintext
> password data, including current and new passwords. Remove the hex dump
> to avoid leaking credentials.
>
>


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo-fixes branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-fixes branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[1/1] platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Don't hex dump plaintext password data
commit: d1a196e0a6dcddd03748468a0e9e3100790fc85c

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