Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: escape non-ASCII andcontrol characters in printk()

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

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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