linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] use %pK for /proc/kallsyms and /proc/modules

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Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:15:09 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use %pK for /proc/kallsyms and /proc/modules

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:10 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Note that when compiling with -Wformat, these harmless warnings will
> be emitted, and can be ignored:
>   warning: '0' flag used with ‘%p’ gnu_printf format

> diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
[]
> @@ -477,11 +477,11 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
>  		 */
>  		type = iter->exported ? toupper(iter->type) :
>  					tolower(iter->type);
> -		seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\t[%s]\n",
> +		seq_printf(m, "%0*pK %c %s\t[%s]\n",
>  			   (int)(2 * sizeof(void *)),
>  			   iter->value, type, iter->name, iter->module_name);

You can change this to

		seq_printf(m, "%pK %c %s\t[%s]\n",
  			   iter->value, type, iter->name, iter->module_name);

as that's the normal size.

Presto.  No warnings.  Same output.

>  	} else
> -		seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\n",
> +		seq_printf(m, "%0*pK %c %s\n",
>  			   (int)(2 * sizeof(void *)),

Here too.

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