Hitherto, alphanumeric characters have been printed as-is, but anything else was replaced by '\0'. However, this effectively truncates the output. Instead, print any printable character as-is and print anything else as a hexadecimal escape sequence: userdata = { \x01\x04\x01\x00\x00\x00 } Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/rule.c | 5 +++-- src/set_elem.c | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/rule.c b/src/rule.c index 0bb1c2a0583c..a1a64bd2837d 100644 --- a/src/rule.c +++ b/src/rule.c @@ -622,8 +622,9 @@ static int nftnl_rule_snprintf_default(char *buf, size_t remain, for (i = 0; i < r->user.len; i++) { char *c = r->user.data; - ret = snprintf(buf + offset, remain, "%c", - isalnum(c[i]) ? c[i] : 0); + ret = snprintf(buf + offset, remain, + isprint(c[i]) ? "%c" : "\\x%02hhx", + c[i]); SNPRINTF_BUFFER_SIZE(ret, remain, offset); } diff --git a/src/set_elem.c b/src/set_elem.c index 95009acb17dc..1c8720dc7c57 100644 --- a/src/set_elem.c +++ b/src/set_elem.c @@ -735,14 +735,15 @@ int nftnl_set_elem_snprintf_default(char *buf, size_t remain, SNPRINTF_BUFFER_SIZE(ret, remain, offset); if (e->user.len) { - ret = snprintf(buf + offset, remain, " userdata = {"); + ret = snprintf(buf + offset, remain, " userdata = { "); SNPRINTF_BUFFER_SIZE(ret, remain, offset); for (i = 0; i < e->user.len; i++) { char *c = e->user.data; - ret = snprintf(buf + offset, remain, "%c", - isalnum(c[i]) ? c[i] : 0); + ret = snprintf(buf + offset, remain, + isprint(c[i]) ? "%c" : "\\x%02hhx", + c[i]); SNPRINTF_BUFFER_SIZE(ret, remain, offset); } -- 2.35.1