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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org
Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] kernel: escape non-ASCII and control characters in printk()
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:14:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308762841.10423.28.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110622165355.GB11803@albatros>

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 20:53 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:38 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > +	if ((c >= ' ' && c < 127) || c == '\n')
> > 	if (isprint(c))
> #define isprint(c)	((__ismask(c)&(_P|_U|_L|_D|_SP)) != 0)
> It slightly differs from what I've written.  It (1) lacks '\n',

You still need tab, so:

if (isprint(c) || isspace(c))

> (2) passes non-ASCII symbols.
> How would non-ASCII symbols look like if
> terminal doesn't support it?  (I don't know, merely asking).

I believe most would work fine.

Are there any lp01's or la36's still connected
to a serial console?

I don't know what would happen to a 7 bit
ascii only device.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22  9:53 [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] kernel: escape non-ASCII and control characters in printk() Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-22 15:37 ` [kernel-hardening] " Greg KH
2011-06-22 16:13   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-23 13:36   ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-23 21:44     ` Greg KH
2011-07-11  6:37   ` Pavel Machek
2011-06-22 16:38 ` Joe Perches
2011-06-22 16:53   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-22 17:14     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2011-06-22 17:48       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-22 18:10   ` Alan Cox
2011-06-22 19:07     ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-23 18:11       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-06-25 20:52       ` [kernel-hardening] Re: [Security] " Willy Tarreau

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