linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/14] fs/pstore: Use %pS printk format for direct addresses

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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:49:12 -0800
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] fs/pstore: Use %pS printk format for direct
 addresses

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:26:51PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:28 PM Helge Deller <deller@....de> wrote:
> >
> > Use the %pS instead of the %pF printk format specifier for printing symbols
> > from direct addresses. This is needed for the ia64, ppc64 and parisc64
> > architectures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> 
> I missed this email from some time ago. I've now applied it, thanks!

Though it isn't really needed any more. See

04b8eb7a4ccd ("symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()")

which is part of the plan to deprecate %pF

-Tony