linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: Don't use %pK through printk

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Message-Id: <20250414-restricted-pointers-net-v1-0-12af0ce46cdd@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:26:01 +0200
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...nel.org>, 
 Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@...aro.org>, 
 Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>, 
 Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>, 
 Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, 
 Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>, 
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, 
 Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Cc: ath10k@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 ath11k@...ts.infradead.org, ath12k@...ts.infradead.org, 
 wcn36xx@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, 
 intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: Don't use %pK through printk

In the past %pK was preferable to %p as it would not leak raw pointer
values into the kernel log.
Since commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
the regular %p has been improved to avoid this issue.
Furthermore, restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant to be used
through printk(). They can still unintentionally leak raw pointers or
acquire sleeping looks in atomic contexts.

Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer and
easier to reason about.
There are still a few users of %pK left, but these use it through seq_file,
for which its usage is safe.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
---
Thomas Weißschuh (7):
      wifi: ath10k: Don't use %pK through printk
      wifi: ath11k: Don't use %pK through printk
      wifi: ath12k: Don't use %pK through printk
      wifi: wcn36xx: Don't use %pK through printk
      wifi: mwifiex: Don't use %pK through printk
      ice: Don't use %pK through printk or tracepoints
      net/mlx5: Don't use %pK through tracepoints

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_trace.h         | 10 +++++-----
 .../mlx5/core/sf/dev/diag/dev_tracepoint.h         |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ahb.c              |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/bmi.c              |  6 +++---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ce.c               |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c             |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.c              |  6 +++---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c           |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c              | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c              |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/testmode.c         |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c             |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/usb.c              |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c              |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/testmode.c         |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/testmode.c         |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/testmode.c        |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c        |  2 +-
 19 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 8ffd015db85fea3e15a77027fda6c02ced4d2444
change-id: 20250404-restricted-pointers-net-a8cddd03e5d1

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>