From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: davidel@xmailserver.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] epoll: don't printk pointer value
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:30:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021211063031.GH9882@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039588045.833.3.camel@phantasy>
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:27:25AM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> I really cannot think of a good reason why eventpoll_init() should print
> a pointer value to user-space - especially the value of current?
> I do not think this is good practice and someone might even consider it
> a security hole. Personally, I would prefer to remove the "successfully
> initialized" message altogether, but at the very least can we not print
> current's address?
You're still passing current as an argument to the printk.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 6:27 [PATCH] epoll: don't printk pointer value Robert Love
2002-12-11 6:30 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-12-11 6:33 ` Robert Love
2002-12-11 6:41 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-11 6:45 ` Robert Love
2002-12-11 7:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-11 17:16 ` Davide Libenzi
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