Re: [patch] printk: add KERN_CONT annotation

Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-02T16:07:16Z

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.