[PATCH V11 1/5] docs: correct documentation for %pK

Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-29T02:05:34Z

Current documentation indicates that %pK prints a leading '0x'. This is
not the case.

Correct documentation for printk specifier %pK.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
---
Documentation/printk-formats.txt | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
index 361789df51ec..71b62db7eca2 100644
--- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
@@ -85,13 +85,12 @@ Examples::
printk("Faulted at %pS\n", (void *)regs->ip);
printk(" %s%pB\n", (reliable ? "" : "? "), (void *)*stack);

-
Kernel Pointers
===============

::

- %pK 0x01234567 or 0x0123456789abcdef
+ %pK 01234567 or 0123456789abcdef

For printing kernel pointers which should be hidden from unprivileged
users. The behaviour of ``%pK`` depends on the ``kptr_restrict sysctl`` - see
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2.7.4