linux-kernel - Re: string_escape_mem ESCAPE

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:27:09 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: string_escape_mem ESCAPE_SPACE

On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 12:59 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm curious why ESCAPE_SPACE doesn't escape spaces (0x20)?

Space is a printable character.
You perhaps wants something like ESCAPE_SPACE | ESCAPE_HEX.

>  That is
> surprising to me, especially since things like isspace() include 
> 0x20.

Moreover, there are test cases in test-string_helpers.c module and they
are based on the real use cases (before helpers were introduced and
users were converted). So, there is no user which expects hex conversio
n of the printable character if not asked explicitly.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy
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