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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:38:03 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Kees Cook' <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH V11 4/5] vsprintf: add printk specifier %px
From: Kees Cook
> Sent: 29 November 2017 22:28
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:07 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> > From: Linus Torvalds
> >> Sent: 29 November 2017 02:29
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Tobin C. Harding <me@...in.cc> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Let's add specifier %px as a
> >> > clear, opt-in, way to print a pointer and maintain some level of
> >> > isolation from all the other hex integer output within the Kernel.
> >>
> >> Yes, I like this model. It's easy and it's obvious ("'x' for hex"),
> >> and it gives people a good way to say "yes, I really want the actual
> >> address as hex" for if/when the hashed pointer doesn't work for some
> >> reason.
> >
> > Remind me to change every %p to %px on kernels that support it.
> >
> > Although the absolute values of pointers may not be useful, knowing
> > that two pointer differ by a small amount is useful.
> > It is also useful to know whether pointers are to stack, code, static
> > data or heap.
> >
> > This change to %p is going to make debugging a nightmare.
>
> In the future, maybe we could have a knob: unhashed, hashed (default),
> or zeroed.
Add a 4th, hashed_page+offset.
Isn't there already a knob for %pK, bits in the same value could be used.
That would make it easy to ensure that %pK is more restructive than %p.
David
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