[PATCH 2/5] staging/vchi: Fix build warnings when formatting pointers on aarch64.

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Oct 17 13:28:34 PDT 2016


On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:44:03PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> The code was generally using "%x" to print and "(unsigned int)" to
> cast the pointers, but we have %p for printing pointers in the same
> format without any broken casts.

I already did this work, it's all checked into my tree, and is in
linux-next now.  You were cc:ed on the patches as well.

Also, please use "%pK" for kernel pointers, you never want to print an
address to userspace unless debugging is enabled, as it is a security
leak.

thanks,

greg k-h



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