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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 01:04:09 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 0/2] printk: hash addresses printed with %p
On (11/02/17 21:14), Tobin C. Harding wrote:
[..]
> I can put my email address if there is not a better option.
sounds good.
> > hm... just a huge pile of if's
> >
> > if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
> > do_hashing(addr);
> > else if (__module_address(addr))
> > do_hashing(addr);
> > else if (is_kernel(addr) || is_kernel_inittext(addr))
> > ...
> >
> > but that's going to be really messy and "iffy".
>
> This is the only suggestion we have so far.
>
well... one more: check if we can safely dereference it. if so
it's a pointer, probably :)
if (!probe_kernel_address(addr, p))
do_hashing(addr);
just an idea.
-ss
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