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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:00:05 +1100
From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 2/2] printk: hash addresses printed with %p

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 08:00:46PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:41:02 +1100
> "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Cool. So I think we need
> > 
> >  	get_random_bytes(&ptr_key, sizeof(ptr_key));
> 
> You'll need to add a comment here to describe what ordering the memory
> barrier is used against. That is, somewhere else there's something that
> needs to see the "true" after the "get_random_bytes" update. Describe
> it here.

Got it, thanks Tobin.

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