On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 09:08 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: >> I'm on board with the idea of embedding comm/pid/whatever, > > I still think the space reduction isn't worth the > complication. > >> but I >> either missed or do not understand why a second format-start character >> is being added. I think this will complicate audits and maybe trigger >> weird info leaks (imagine printing a string that was %-escaped, but >> not 0x1A-escaped?) >> Why not use % followed by 0x1A to be the start code, instead of just 0x1A? > > gcc would bleat an error for > "unknown conversion type character 0x1a in format".
Oh right. Bleh. Which gets me back around to the original patch which overloaded %p. Hrmpf. Yeah, on the fence about this. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
