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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2015-09-09 15:37:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -0700 |
| commit | d89a3f7335bb5d9e572ecc287b300161200364eb (patch) | |
| tree | 746c14eb344942bb90b15961f765ecb1a4b2eb30 /lib/string_helpers.c | |
| parent | cdf17449af1d9b596742c260134edd6c1fac2792 (diff) | |
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lib/string_helpers: clarify esc arg in string_escape_mem
The esc argument is used to reduce which characters will be escaped. For
example, using " " with ESCAPE_SPACE will not produce any escaped spaces.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/string_helpers.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/string_helpers.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c index c98ae818eb4e..0a307a97d489 100644 --- a/lib/string_helpers.c +++ b/lib/string_helpers.c @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static bool escape_hex(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end) * @dst: destination buffer (escaped) * @osz: destination buffer size * @flags: combination of the flags (bitwise OR): - * %ESCAPE_SPACE: + * %ESCAPE_SPACE: (special white space, not space itself) * '\f' - form feed * '\n' - new line * '\r' - carriage return @@ -432,8 +432,10 @@ static bool escape_hex(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end) * all previous together * %ESCAPE_HEX: * '\xHH' - byte with hexadecimal value HH (2 digits) - * @esc: NULL-terminated string of characters any of which, if found in - * the source, has to be escaped + * @esc: NULL-terminated string containing characters used to limit + * the selected escape class. If characters are included in @esc + * that would not normally be escaped by the classes selected + * in @flags, they will be copied to @dst unescaped. * * Description: * The process of escaping byte buffer includes several parts. They are applied @@ -441,7 +443,7 @@ static bool escape_hex(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end) * 1. The character is matched to the printable class, if asked, and in * case of match it passes through to the output. * 2. The character is not matched to the one from @esc string and thus - * must go as is to the output. + * must go as-is to the output. * 3. The character is checked if it falls into the class given by @flags. * %ESCAPE_OCTAL and %ESCAPE_HEX are going last since they cover any * character. Note that they actually can't go together, otherwise |