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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk/printk.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index d6b96136deb4..20ebf827e858 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -989,15 +989,19 @@ static ssize_t kmsg_read(struct log_buffer *log_b, struct file *file, user->seq, ts_usec, cont); user->prev = msg->flags; - /* escape non-printable characters */ for (i = 0; i < msg->text_len; i++) { unsigned char c = log_text(msg)[i]; - if (c < ' ' || c >= 127 || c == '\\') - p += scnprintf(p, e - p, "\\x%02x", c); - else - append_char(&p, e, c); + append_char(&p, e, c); } + + /* + * The \0 is delimits the text part, while the newline is for formatting + * when catting the device directly. We cannot use \n for delimiting due + * to security: else one could forge dictionary tags through the message + * such as "text\n _PID=123" + */ + append_char(&p, e, '\0'); append_char(&p, e, '\n'); if (msg->dict_len) { @@ -1017,11 +1021,6 @@ static ssize_t kmsg_read(struct log_buffer *log_b, struct file *file, continue; } - if (c < ' ' || c >= 127 || c == '\\') { - p += scnprintf(p, e - p, "\\x%02x", c); - continue; - } - append_char(&p, e, c); } append_char(&p, e, '\n'); |