Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:07:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [patch] printk: add KERN_CONT annotation |
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On Oct 2 2007 09:03, Joe Perches wrote: >On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 17:45 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> always use printk("%s", var) > >You have to use indirect arguments to log something?
No, you do not have to.
>Don't you think that's a stupid rule?
Not at all. var may contain format specifiers, which poses a certain security issue into people's hands. This is already important in userspace, so is probably even more in the kernel, even though user-supplied strings are less common. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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