linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: add userspace pointers

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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 16:41:52 +0100
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, 
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>, 
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>, 
	Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>, Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>, 
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>, Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>, 
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: add userspace pointers

On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 01:53:20PM +0100, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > > Is some sort of `Debug` implementation useful?
> >
> > Leaking pointer addresses in logs is frowned upon in the kernel, so I
> > don't think we should include that.
>
> s/frowned upon/forbidden/ :)

:)

> Along those lines, you all are tieing in the "I want to print a pointer,
> so hash it properly before I do so" logic from rust like we have in c,
> right?  Ideally you'd use the same logic if at all possible.
>
> If not, that probably needs to be done so that you don't accidentally
> start leaking things.

I don't know what the status of this is. For anything I've added, I've
just made it entirely impossible to print addresses, hashed or not.

Alice