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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Add support for userspace strings
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:16:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431288982.29257.31.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554FBB8F.3070204@nod.at>

On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 22:11 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 10.05.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Joe Perches:
> > On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 21:42 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >> Add %pL format string to print userspace strings.
> >> It works like %s but does copy_from_user() instead
> >> of a memcpy().
> > 
> > I think this would be much simpler in a new
> > function rather than complicating string()
> 
> -ENOPATCH.

It's your patch, I'm just commenting on it.

I'm not sure there's much value in it.

Can it can add security holes if used with %pV?




  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-10 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-10 19:42 vsprintf: Add support for userspace strings Richard Weinberger
2015-05-10 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] Fix printk() on ERR_PTR() Richard Weinberger
2015-05-11 23:20   ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-12  7:23     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-10 19:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Add support for userspace strings Richard Weinberger
2015-05-10 20:09   ` Joe Perches
2015-05-10 20:11     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-10 20:16       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-05-10 20:22         ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-11 23:23         ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-12  7:31           ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-11  0:24 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-05-11  8:59   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-11 10:57     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-11 20:42       ` Masami Hiramatsu

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