linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] ice: Don't use %pK through printk or tracepoints

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Message-Id: <20250618-restricted-pointers-net-v3-1-3b7a531e58bb@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:08:06 +0200
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: 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: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, 
 Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] ice: Don't use %pK through printk or
 tracepoints

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 locks 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>
Acked-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_trace.h | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
index 0a11b4281092e25bb7b66d48867f7c4f9fb2286d..c94bf3b8c19ce8963ebcbc486c6f446c077762b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
@@ -9168,7 +9168,7 @@ static int ice_create_q_channels(struct ice_vsi *vsi)
 		list_add_tail(&ch->list, &vsi->ch_list);
 		vsi->tc_map_vsi[i] = ch->ch_vsi;
 		dev_dbg(ice_pf_to_dev(pf),
-			"successfully created channel: VSI %pK\n", ch->ch_vsi);
+			"successfully created channel: VSI %p\n", ch->ch_vsi);
 	}
 	return 0;

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_trace.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_trace.h
index 07aab6e130cd553fa1fcaa2feac9d14f0433239a..4f35ef8d6b299b4acd6c85992c2c93b164a88372 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_trace.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_trace.h
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ice_tx_template,
 				   __entry->buf = buf;
 				   __assign_str(devname);),

-		    TP_printk("netdev: %s ring: %pK desc: %pK buf %pK", __get_str(devname),
+		    TP_printk("netdev: %s ring: %p desc: %p buf %p", __get_str(devname),
 			      __entry->ring, __entry->desc, __entry->buf)
 );

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ice_rx_template,
 				   __entry->desc = desc;
 				   __assign_str(devname);),

-		    TP_printk("netdev: %s ring: %pK desc: %pK", __get_str(devname),
+		    TP_printk("netdev: %s ring: %p desc: %p", __get_str(devname),
 			      __entry->ring, __entry->desc)
 );
 DEFINE_EVENT(ice_rx_template, ice_clean_rx_irq,
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ice_rx_indicate_template,
 				   __entry->skb = skb;
 				   __assign_str(devname);),

-		    TP_printk("netdev: %s ring: %pK desc: %pK skb %pK", __get_str(devname),
+		    TP_printk("netdev: %s ring: %p desc: %p skb %p", __get_str(devname),
 			      __entry->ring, __entry->desc, __entry->skb)
 );

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ice_xmit_template,
 				   __entry->skb = skb;
 				   __assign_str(devname);),

-		    TP_printk("netdev: %s skb: %pK ring: %pK", __get_str(devname),
+		    TP_printk("netdev: %s skb: %p ring: %p", __get_str(devname),
 			      __entry->skb, __entry->ring)
 );

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ice_tx_tstamp_template,
 		    TP_fast_assign(__entry->skb = skb;
 				   __entry->idx = idx;),

-		    TP_printk("skb %pK idx %d",
+		    TP_printk("skb %p idx %d",
 			      __entry->skb, __entry->idx)
 );
 #define DEFINE_TX_TSTAMP_OP_EVENT(name) \

-- 
2.49.0