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

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Message-ID: <CAGXu5jJEwekbm0rad3=nq785T6yPhDfjF8neq1+WzBBver6mKw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:40:56 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
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 3:49 PM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Ah-ha! Okay then, nevermind. :) Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook