linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V11 0/5] hash addresses printed with %p

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Message-ID: <CACVxJT_jO5iuG9xDp+rDhiZ1iqAx1FXisY4Af4cHJfLmHCz39w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:33:46 +0200
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     me@...in.cc
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, David.Laight@...lab.com,
        sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V11 0/5] hash addresses printed with %p

On 11/30/17, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
>> Currently there exist approximately 14 000 places
>> in the Kernel where addresses are being printed
>> using an unadorned %p.
>
> Some of them are printing userpace pointers,
> so audit is necessary anyway:
>
> show_timer:
>    seq_printf(m, "signal: %d/%p\n",
>                    timer->sigq->info.si_signo,
>                    timer->sigq->info.si_value.sival_ptr);
>