From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: printk()s of user-supplied strings
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:16:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19700101001658.GA4066@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060828015224.GA27199@openwall.com>
> > 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.
--
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-01 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-20 2:04 [PATCH x7] misc fixes from 2.4.33-ow1 Solar Designer
2006-08-20 9:15 ` [PATCH] binfmt_elf.c : the BAD_ADDR macro again Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 15:51 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 16:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-21 20:35 ` Ernie Petrides
2006-08-21 21:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-21 23:36 ` Ernie Petrides
2006-08-22 3:07 ` printk()s of user-supplied strings (Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf.c : the BAD_ADDR macro again) Solar Designer
2006-08-22 20:23 ` Ernie Petrides
2006-08-22 20:34 ` printk()s of user-supplied strings Willy Tarreau
2006-08-24 16:44 ` printk()s of user-supplied strings (Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf.c : the BAD_ADDR macro again) Solar Designer
2006-08-24 16:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-26 2:29 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-26 8:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-26 23:13 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-27 20:04 ` printk()s of user-supplied strings Willy Tarreau
2006-08-28 1:52 ` Solar Designer
1970-01-01 0:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-08-28 8:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-28 11:17 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-08-30 6:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-28 17:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-08-22 4:36 ` [PATCH] binfmt_elf.c : the BAD_ADDR macro again Willy Tarreau
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