[PATCH 1/2] coresight: Use %px to print pcsr instead of %p

Leo Yan leo.yan at linaro.org
Mon Apr 9 16:44:27 PDT 2018


Hi Kees,

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 10:54:58AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mathieu, Kees,
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 09:47:31AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> >> On 5 April 2018 at 00:26, Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Mathieu Poirier
> >> > <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> >> From: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
> >> >>
> >> >> Commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p") lets
> >> >> printk specifier %p to hash all addresses before printing, this was
> >> >> resulting in the high 32 bits of pcsr can only output zeros.  So
> >> >> module cannot completely print pc value and it's pointless for debugging
> >> >> purpose.
> >> >>
> >> >> This patch fixes this by using %px to print pcsr instead.
> >> >
> >> > Why is %p (and now %px) needed here at all? %pS is already used, which
> >> > should give useful debugging details, yes?
> >>
> >> Hey Leo,
> >>
> >> I've taken a second look at this and Kees has a point, %pS should be
> >> sufficient here.  Please test again and see if %px is absolutely
> >> necessary.  If you think that is the case please provide a snapshot of
> >> the corner case that makes the change mandatory.
> >
> > Sorry I missed replying for this patch due to my email filter and
> > thanks for suggestion.
> >
> > I can think out one case which should use %px: if CPU is locked up in
> > firmwares (e.g. NS-EL2 or ARM-TF in S-EL3), we can rely on %px to read
> > back PC hex value; for this case the CPU PC address is out of kernel
> > space.
> >
> > How about you guys think for this?
> 
> Wouldn't %pS still give you a meaningful offset?

My fault, I tested at my side %pS does output offset for PC value
out of kernel space (e.g. when PC = 0x12345678).

Thank you for the suggestions ;)  Will send new patch for the fixing.

Thanks,
Leo Yan



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