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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2012-07-06 09:50:09 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-07-06 09:50:09 -0700
commite3f5a5f27153228569f3396049838e9727dae86e (patch)
tree8ae40775f660a5dcca57960fac222096e1dfefed /kernel
parent5c53d819c71c63fdc91f30a59164583f68e2d63a (diff)
downloadlinux-e3f5a5f27153228569f3396049838e9727dae86e.tar.gz
kmsg: escape the backslash character while exporting data
Non-printable characters in the log data are hex-escaped to ensure safe
post processing. We need to escape a backslash we find in the data, to be
able to distinguish it from a backslash we add for the escaping.

Also escape the non-printable character 127.

Thanks to Miloslav Trmac for the heads up.

Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 12886cd19cd9..505863aa3a7f 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	for (i = 0; i < msg->text_len; i++) {
 		unsigned char c = log_text(msg)[i];
 
-		if (c < ' ' || c >= 128)
+		if (c < ' ' || c >= 127 || c == '\\')
 			len += sprintf(user->buf + len, "\\x%02x", c);
 		else
 			user->buf[len++] = c;
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 				continue;
 			}
 
-			if (c < ' ' || c >= 128) {
+			if (c < ' ' || c >= 127 || c == '\\') {
 				len += sprintf(user->buf + len, "\\x%02x", c);
 				continue;
 			}