On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 16:20 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> In kernel we have function to escape a given string. Let's use it instead of
> custom approach.
> 
> This fixes a bug. The current implementation wrongly prints octal numbers: 
> only
> two first digits are used in case when 3 are required and the rest of the
> string ends up cut off.
[]
> diff --git a/net/wireless/lib80211.c b/net/wireless/lib80211.c
[]
> @@ -48,31 +49,10 @@ static void lib80211_crypt_deinit_handler(unsigned long 
> data);
>  
>  const char *print_ssid(char *buf, const char *ssid, u8 ssid_len)
>  {
> -     const char *s = ssid;
>       char *d = buf;
>  
>       ssid_len = min_t(u8, ssid_len, IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN);
> -     while (ssid_len--) {
> -             if (isprint(*s)) {
> -                     *d++ = *s++;
> -                     continue;
> -             }
> -
> -             *d++ = '\\';
> -             if (*s == '\0')
> -                     *d++ = '0';
> -             else if (*s == '\n')
> -                     *d++ = 'n';
> -             else if (*s == '\r')
> -                     *d++ = 'r';
> -             else if (*s == '\t')
> -                     *d++ = 't';
> -             else if (*s == '\\')
> -                     *d++ = '\\';
> -             else
> -                     d += snprintf(d, 3, "%03o", *s);
> -             s++;
> -     }
> +     d += string_escape_mem_any_np(ssid, ssid_len, buf, ~0UL, NULL);
>       *d = '\0';
>       return buf;
>  }

This code looks like it was adapted from the old print_mac
ethernet code that was eventually replaced by a vsprintf
pointer extension %pM

So a better way to do this might be to add and use yet
another vsprintf %p<foo> extension for ssids.


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