linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] ice: Don't use %pK through printk or tracepoints

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Message-Id: <20250811-restricted-pointers-net-v5-1-2e2fdc7d3f2c@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:43:18 +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>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@...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>, 
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v5 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>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
---
 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 8e0b06c1e02b2a0ca25bd6f30395cc237e8c541e..93c6e64ed9404e48be5fedd5f7887a1bca8dda0e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
@@ -9117,7 +9117,7 @@ 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) \

-- 
2.50.1