linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sound: stm32: replace "%p" with "%pK"

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Date:   Sat, 7 Jul 2018 13:29:18 +0200
From:   Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@...com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound: stm32: replace "%p" with "%pK"

2018-07-06 16:59 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:07:03 +0200,
> Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
>>
>> The format specifier "%p" can leak kernel addresses.
>> Use "%pK" instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...com>
>
> The code change itself is OK (apart from the subject prefix to be
> "ASoC").  But do we really want to patch manually every single place
> like this?  There are thousands of files using '%p'.

I have limited myself to the few remaining %p in STM32 architecture.

>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi