Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: don't print SSID to logs

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:

> There are a few reasons not to dump SSIDs as-is in kernel logs:
> 
> 1) they're not guaranteed to be any particular text encoding (UTF-8,
>    ASCII, ...) in general
> 2) it's somewhat redundant; the BSSID should be enough to uniquely
>    identify the AP/STA to which we're connecting
> 3) BSSIDs have an easily-recognized format, whereas SSIDs do not (they
>    are free-form)
> 4) other common drivers (e.g., everything based on mac80211) get along
>    just fine by only including BSSIDs when logging state transitions
> 
> Additional notes on reason #3: this is important for the
> privacy-conscious, especially when providing tools that convey
> kernel logs on behalf of a user -- e.g., when reporting bugs. So for
> example, it's easy to automatically filter logs for MAC addresses, but
> it's much harder to filter SSIDs out of unstructured text.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

d23a96220353 mwifiex: don't print SSID to logs

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