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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] nfsd: escape high characters in binary data
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:54:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201907101853.AB9F346A92@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190710220931.GB11923@fieldses.org>

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 06:09:31PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 12:33:58PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > But I may just give up and go with my existing patch and put
> > off that project indefinitely, especially if there's no real need to fix
> > the existing callers.
> 
> I went with the existing patch, but gave a little more thought to
> string_escape_mem.  Stuff that bugs me:
> 
> 	- ESCAPE_NP sounds like it means "escape nonprinting
> 	  characters", but actually means "do not escape printing
> 	  characters"
> 	- the use of the "only" string to limit the list of escaped
> 	  characters rather than supplement them is confusing and kind
> 	  of unhelpful.
> 	- most of the flags are actually totally unused
>     
> So what I'd like to do is:
>     
> 	- eliminate unused flags
> 	- use the "only" string to add to, rather than replace, the list
> 	  of characters to escape
> 	- separate flags into those that select which characters to
> 	  escape, and those that choose the format of the escaping ("\ "
> 	  vs "\x20" vs "\040".)
>     
> I've got some patches that do all that and I think it works.  I need to
> clean them up a bit and fix up the tests.

This sounds amazing; thanks! Luckily there are self-tests for this code,
so anything really surprising should stand out. I'm looking forward to
it -- I want to see if I can refactor a few of the callers (if you
haven't already do so) too.

Yay!

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-11  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-20 14:50 [PATCH 00/16] exposing knfsd client state to userspace J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 01/16] nfsd: persist nfsd filesystem across mounts J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 02/16] nfsd: rename cl_refcount J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 03/16] nfsd4: use reference count to free client J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 04/16] nfsd: add nfsd/clients directory J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 05/16] nfsd: make client/ directory names small ints J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 06/16] nfsd4: add a client info file J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 07/16] nfsd: copy client's address including port number to cl_addr J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 08/16] nfsd: escape high characters in binary data J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-21 17:45   ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-21 22:26     ` Kees Cook
2019-06-22 19:00       ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-22 20:22         ` Kees Cook
2019-06-24 21:05           ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-26 16:21             ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-27  4:16               ` Kees Cook
2019-06-27 15:23                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-27 20:21               ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-28  3:58                 ` Kees Cook
2019-06-28 16:33                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-07-10 22:09                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-07-11  1:54                       ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-08-06 12:19   ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-08-06 18:50     ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-08-07  9:00       ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-08-08 11:28         ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-08-27 13:36           ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 09/16] nfsd: add more information to client info file J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 10/16] nfsd4: add file to display list of client's opens J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 11/16] nfsd: show lock and deleg stateids J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 12/16] nfsd4: show layout stateids J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 13/16] nfsd: create get_nfsdfs_clp helper J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 14/16] nfsd: allow forced expiration of NFSv4 clients J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 15/16] nfsd: create xdr_netobj_dup helper J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-20 14:51 ` [PATCH 16/16] nfsd: decode implementation id J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-21 18:13 ` [PATCH 00/16] exposing knfsd client state to userspace J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-21 19:25   ` Anna Schumaker
2019-06-21 22:08     ` J. Bruce Fields

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