[PATCH v2 0/2] staging: vc04_services: Use %p to log pointer

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Dec 3 23:08:27 PST 2023


On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 01:50:05AM +0530, Umang Jain wrote:
> %lx is used to print the unmodified pointer address for debugging.
> %p will print the hashed pointer address to avoid leaking information
> about kernel memory layout to userspace. But when `no_hash_pointers`
> is passed as kernel parameter, unmodified pointer address will be
> printed.
> 
> Hence, drop %lx in favour of %p. For debugging purposes, one can
> easily depend on `no_hash_pointers`.
> 
> This also solves the following smatch warnings:
> service_callback() warn: argument 7 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
> service_callback() warn: argument 11 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
> service_callback() warn: argument 12 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
> service_callback() warn: argument 13 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
> vchiq_release() warn: argument 7 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Built/Rebased on top of:
>   [PATCH v2 0/5] staging: vc04_services: Drop custom logging
> 
> Umang Jain (2):
>   staging: vc04_services: Use %p to log pointer address
>   staging: vc04_services: Use %p to log pointer address

You have 2 different patches that do different things, yet have the
identical subject lines.  That needs to be fixed up before I can take
them.

thanks,

greg k-h



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