* [PATCH v2] ARM: mm: Don't use %pK through printk
@ 2025-08-11 10:49 Thomas Weißschuh
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From: Thomas Weißschuh @ 2025-08-11 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Russell King, Kees Cook
Cc: linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
linux-hardening, Thomas Weißschuh
Restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant to be used
through printk(). They can acquire sleeping locks in atomic contexts.
Switch to %px over the more secure %p as this usage is a debugging aid,
gated behind CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL and used by WARN().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250113171731-dc10e3c1-da64-4af0-b767-7c7070468023@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rebase on v6.17-rc1
- Switch to %px instead
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217-restricted-pointers-arm-v1-1-aaa0fb22e18c@linutronix.de
---
arch/arm/mm/physaddr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/physaddr.c b/arch/arm/mm/physaddr.c
index 3f263c840ebc462e13c34d33be0161e7a473173d..1a37ebfacbba969b9341fe17518cdd81fb2899b6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/physaddr.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/physaddr.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static inline bool __virt_addr_valid(unsigned long x)
phys_addr_t __virt_to_phys(unsigned long x)
{
WARN(!__virt_addr_valid(x),
- "virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: %pK (%pS)\n",
+ "virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: %px (%pS)\n",
(void *)x, (void *)x);
return __virt_to_phys_nodebug(x);
---
base-commit: 8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585
change-id: 20250217-restricted-pointers-arm-07493b11c0fc
Best regards,
--
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
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