linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] enable early printing of hashed pointers

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 16:21:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
cc:     "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] enable early printing of hashed pointers

On Thu, 31 May 2018, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Mon, 28 May 2018 11:46:38 +1000
> "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc> wrote:
> 
> > Steve,
> 
> Hi Tobin,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, I'm currently at a conference and have had
> little time to read email.
> 
> > 
> > Could you please take a quick squiz at the final 2 patches if you get a
> > chance.  I assumed we are in preemptible context during early_init based
> > on your code (and code comment) and called static_branch_disable()
> > directly if hw RNG returned keying material.  It's a pretty simple
> > change but I'd love to get someone else to check I've not noob'ed it.
> 
> I can take a look, and perhaps do some tests. But it was Anna-Maria
> that originally triggered the issue. She's on Cc, perhaps she can try
> this and see if it works.

I'll test it today - sorry for the delay.

Anna-Maria