Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: escape non-ASCII and control characters in printk()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sure, I don't propose it anymore (v2 goes without it).

What point would you like to filter things at?

I really think that user space should do its own filtering - nobody
does a plain 'cat' on dmesg. Or if they do, they really have
themselves to blame.

And afaik, we don't do any escape sequence handling at the console
level either, so you cannot mess up the console with control
characters.

And the most dangerous character seems to be one that you don't
filter: the one we really do react to is '\n', and you could possibly
make confusing log messages by embedding a newline in your string and
then trying to make the rest look like something bad (say, an oops).

So I'm not entirely convinced about this filtering at all.

                     Linus
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