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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:33:19 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] add printk specifier %px, unique identifier

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oh well, I just did /proc/<pid>/stack by making it just print 0
>> unconditionally rather than the hex number.
>
> Patch?

Oh, apparently I never pushed out yesterday.

The patch literally just affects the (useless) hex number. So:

    cat /proc/self/stack

now prints out

    [<0>] proc_pid_stack+0xaa/0x100
    [<0>] proc_single_show+0x48/0x80
    [<0>] seq_read+0xd2/0x410
    ...

instead of putting some randomized kernel address there.

I considered getting rid of the whole "[<>]" thing, but that's where
"maybe there are tools that parse this" came in.

I doubt there are any, though. If proc-ps doesn't look at this, I
don't know what could. But the format change might as well be a
separate thing if somebody cares deeply.

                     Linus

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