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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: string_escape_mem ESCAPE_SPACE
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:27:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437683229.29746.49.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+=R+ZbM--Bx3HOAwDhQtQ-zhBNvsU58MdEo+ASr3ji5g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 12:59 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm curious why ESCAPE_SPACE doesn't escape spaces (0x20)?

Space is a printable character.
You perhaps wants something like ESCAPE_SPACE | ESCAPE_HEX.

>  That is
> surprising to me, especially since things like isspace() include 
> 0x20.

Moreover, there are test cases in test-string_helpers.c module and they
are based on the real use cases (before helpers were introduced and
users were converted). So, there is no user which expects hex conversio
n of the printable character if not asked explicitly.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23 19:59 string_escape_mem ESCAPE_SPACE Kees Cook
2015-07-23 20:27 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2015-07-23 20:36   ` Kees Cook
2015-07-23 20:50     ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-07-23 22:57       ` Kees Cook

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