From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] wifi: ath9k: fix printk specifier
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:10:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mszms2hy.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230723040403.296723-1-dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn> writes:
> Smatch reports:
>
> ath_pci_probe() warn: argument 4 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
> ath_ahb_probe() warn: argument 4 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
>
> Fix it by modifying %lx to %p in the printk format string.
>
> Note that with this change, the pointer address will be printed as a
> hashed value by default. This is appropriate because the kernel
> should not leak kernel pointers to user space in an informational
> message. If someone wants to see the real address for debugging
> purposes, this can be achieved with the no_hash_pointers kernel option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-23 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-23 4:04 [PATCH v4] wifi: ath9k: fix printk specifier Dongliang Mu
2023-07-23 22:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2023-07-25 14:31 ` Kalle Valo
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