Re: [PATCH] HID: usbhid: sanitize hid->uniq against non-printable bytes

[Oliver Neukum]

On 23.04.26 11:29, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 05:55:00AM +0000, Eric Naim wrote:
> > On 4/18/26 3:14 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> > [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/41339#issuecomment-4266429563
>
> It's either up to the kernel, or every single userspace program that
> reads the strings from a device.  Might as well do it in one place,
> right?

No, because that puts the assumption that user space is not interested
in what the device actually returns and uses these strings just
for printing.
Eg. you can no longer use this in a udev rule.

	Regards
		Oliver