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[PATCH v3 1/6] string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable

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Handle allocating and escaping a string safe for logging.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
v3:
- add gfp_t, joe
- reduce BUG_ON to WARN_ON, joe
---
 include/linux/string_helpers.h |  2 ++
 lib/string_helpers.c           | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index dabe643eb5fa..e4c597969460 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -68,4 +68,6 @@ static inline int string_escape_str_any_np(const char *src, char *dst,
 	return string_escape_str(src, dst, sz, ESCAPE_ANY_NP, only);
 }
 
+char *kstrdup_quotable(char *src, gfp_t gfp);
+
 #endif
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 5c88204b6f1f..a8e2716e63c6 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/string_helpers.h>
 
@@ -534,3 +535,30 @@ int string_escape_mem(const char *src, size_t isz, char *dst, size_t osz,
 	return p - dst;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(string_escape_mem);
+
+/*
+ * Return an allocated string that has been escaped of special characters
+ * and double quotes, making it safe to log in quotes.
+ */
+char *kstrdup_quotable(char *src, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	size_t slen, dlen;
+	char *dst;
+	const int flags = ESCAPE_HEX;
+	const char esc[] = "\f\n\r\t\v\a\e\\\"";
+
+	if (!src)
+		return NULL;
+	slen = strlen(src);
+
+	dlen = string_escape_mem(src, slen, NULL, 0, flags, esc);
+	dst = kmalloc(dlen + 1, gfp);
+	if (!dst)
+		return NULL;
+
+	WARN_ON(string_escape_mem(src, slen, dst, dlen, flags, esc) != dlen);
+	dst[dlen] = '\0';
+
+	return dst;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kstrdup_quotable);
-- 
2.6.3

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[PATCH v3 1/6] string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-04-07 02:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] string_helpers: add kstrdup_quotable Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-07 10:10 +0200

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