netdev - Re: [PATCH net] isdn: Partially revert debug format string usage clean up

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Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:50:10 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, isdn@...ux-pingi.de, keescook@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] isdn: Partially revert debug format string usage
 clean up

From: Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 07:47:40 +0100

> Commit 35a4a57 ("isdn: clean up debug format string usage") introduced
> a safeguard to avoid accidential format string interpolation of data
> when calling debugl1 or HiSax_putstatus. This did however not take into
> account VHiSax_putstatus (called by HiSax_putstatus) does *not* call
> vsprintf if the head parameter is NULL - the format string is treated
> as plain text then instead. As a result, the string "%s" is processed
> literally, and the actual information is lost. This affects the isdnlog
> userspace program which stopped logging information since that commit.
> 
> So revert the HiSax_putstatus invocations to the previous state.
> 
> Fixes: 35a4a5733b0a ("isdn: clean up debug format string usage")
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de>

Applied, thanks.
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