Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:16:58 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: printk()s of user-supplied strings |
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> > 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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