[PATCH v2] soc: ti: pruss: don't use %pK through printk

Thomas Weißschuh thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de
Mon Aug 11 00:48:30 PDT 2025


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 locks in atomic contexts.

Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer and
easier to reason about.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rebase on v6.17-rc1
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250718-restricted-pointers-soc-v1-1-c0d0d0bc2e39@linutronix.de
---
 drivers/soc/ti/pruss.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/ti/pruss.c b/drivers/soc/ti/pruss.c
index d7634bf5413a3421da296103fc1591030cd00cbc..038576805bfa0f8dece569cf6faecedfb43a392f 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/ti/pruss.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/ti/pruss.c
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ static int pruss_of_setup_memories(struct device *dev, struct pruss *pruss)
 		pruss->mem_regions[i].pa = res.start;
 		pruss->mem_regions[i].size = resource_size(&res);
 
-		dev_dbg(dev, "memory %8s: pa %pa size 0x%zx va %pK\n",
+		dev_dbg(dev, "memory %8s: pa %pa size 0x%zx va %p\n",
 			mem_names[i], &pruss->mem_regions[i].pa,
 			pruss->mem_regions[i].size, pruss->mem_regions[i].va);
 	}

---
base-commit: 8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585
change-id: 20250718-restricted-pointers-soc-499748d55cbc

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>




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