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Message-ID: <324abe19f1ee4177911d2fc48899ac8a@AcuMS.aculab.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:07:27 +0000 From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM> To: 'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc> CC: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>, "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@...el.com>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@...nel.org>, Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@...tonmail.ch>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will Deacon <wilal.deacon@....com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Chris Fries <cfries@...gle.com>, Dave Weinstein <olorin@...gle.com>, "Daniel Micay" <danielmicay@...il.com>, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>, Radim Krcmár <rkrcmar@...hat.com>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: RE: [PATCH V11 4/5] vsprintf: add printk specifier %px From: Linus Torvalds > Sent: 29 November 2017 02:29 > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Tobin C. Harding <me@...in.cc> wrote: > > > > Let's add specifier %px as a > > clear, opt-in, way to print a pointer and maintain some level of > > isolation from all the other hex integer output within the Kernel. > > Yes, I like this model. It's easy and it's obvious ("'x' for hex"), > and it gives people a good way to say "yes, I really want the actual > address as hex" for if/when the hashed pointer doesn't work for some > reason. Remind me to change every %p to %px on kernels that support it. Although the absolute values of pointers may not be useful, knowing that two pointer differ by a small amount is useful. It is also useful to know whether pointers are to stack, code, static data or heap. This change to %p is going to make debugging a nightmare. David
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