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Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:04:51 -0500
From:	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Switch proc interfaces in kernel/ to %pK

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 10:29 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2011/01/19 7:51), Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> > Switch users of %p in /proc interfaces in kernel/ to %pK, to allow
> > configuring the level of exposure of kernel pointers via the
> > kptr_restrict sysctl.
> 
> This report_probe interface is at /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list.
> Is that policy applied to debugfs interface (for debug) too?
> # in that case, you might update ftrace and perf tracing interfaces...
> 

There's no reason to not update ftrace and perf too, since I'd assume no
one is using debugging interfaces without root privileges anyway.  I'll
add them to my list.

> > diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> > index 7798181..2437ca4 100644
> > --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> > @@ -2021,11 +2021,11 @@ static void __kprobes report_probe(struct seq_file *pi, struct kprobe *p,
> >  		kprobe_type = "k";
> >  
> >  	if (sym)
> > -		seq_printf(pi, "%p  %s  %s+0x%x  %s ",
> > +		seq_printf(pi, "%pK  %s  %s+0x%x  %s ",
> >  			p->addr, kprobe_type, sym, offset,
> >  			(modname ? modname : " "));
> >  	else
> > -		seq_printf(pi, "%p  %s  %p ",
> > +		seq_printf(pi, "%pK  %s  %pK ",
> >  			p->addr, kprobe_type, p->addr);
> >  
> >  	if (!pp)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Masami HIRAMATSU
> 2nd Dept. Linux Technology Center
> Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory
> E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com


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