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Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:53:43 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] rtl8192*: display ESSIDs using %pE
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:44:25PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
> Everywhere else in the kernel ESSIDs are printed using %pE, and I can't
> see why there should be an exception here.

I would expand this rationale slightly: using "n" here makes no sense
because they are already NUL-terminated strings. The "n" modifier could
only be used with string_escape_mem() which takes a "length" argument.

Regardless:

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-Kees

> 
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h              | 2 +-
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h
> index 2dd57e88276e..096254e422b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h
> @@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@ static inline const char *escape_essid(const char *essid, u8 essid_len)
>  		return escaped;
>  	}
>  
> -	snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pEn", essid_len, essid);
> +	snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pE", essid_len, essid);
>  	return escaped;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h
> index d36963469015..3963a08b9eb2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h
> @@ -2426,7 +2426,7 @@ static inline const char *escape_essid(const char *essid, u8 essid_len)
>  		return escaped;
>  	}
>  
> -	snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pEn", essid_len, essid);
> +	snprintf(escaped, sizeof(escaped), "%*pE", essid_len, essid);
>  	return escaped;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.21.0
> 

-- 
Kees Cook