[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next 2/7] wifi: ath11k: Don't use %pK through printk

Loktionov, Aleksandr aleksandr.loktionov at intel.com
Mon Apr 14 09:17:31 PDT 2025



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org> On Behalf Of
> Thomas Weißschuh
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 10:26 AM
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> Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next 2/7] wifi: ath11k: Don't use %pK
> through printk
> 
> In the past %pK was preferable to %p as it would not leak raw pointer values
> into the kernel log.
> Since commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p") the
> regular %p has been improved to avoid this issue.
> Furthermore, restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant to be used
> through printk(). They can still unintentionally leak raw pointers or acquire
> sleeping looks in atomic contexts.
> 
> Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer and easier to reason
> about.
> There are still a few users of %pK left, but these use it through seq_file, for
> which its usage is safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/testmode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/testmode.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/testmode.c
> index
> 9be1cd742339c95ffa74c09bee924f4eff15134a..a9751ea2a0b73009bfb600
> d51c3978200ce99114 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/testmode.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/testmode.c
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int ath11k_tm_process_event(struct
> ath11k_base *ab, u32 cmd_id,
>  	u32 pdev_id;
> 
>  	ath11k_dbg(ab, ATH11K_DBG_TESTMODE,
> -		   "event wmi cmd_id %d ftm event msg %pK datalen %d\n",
> +		   "event wmi cmd_id %d ftm event msg %p datalen %d\n",
>  		   cmd_id, ftm_msg, length);
>  	ath11k_dbg_dump(ab, ATH11K_DBG_TESTMODE, NULL, "", ftm_msg,
> length);
>  	pdev_id = DP_HW2SW_MACID(ftm_msg->seg_hdr.pdev_id);
> 
> --
> 2.49.0



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