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From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Ke Sun <sunke@kylinos.cn>
Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
	"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
	"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
	"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
	"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
	"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
	rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v13 2/2] rust: fmt: route {:p} through HashedPtr to prevent address leaks
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 08:15:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <anLxCshIflMu-1zI@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260706-hashedptr-v13-2-377a07f2f78d@kylinos.cn>

On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 01:18:44PM +0800, Ke Sun wrote:
> Define a custom `kernel::fmt::Pointer` trait and `HashedPtr` wrapper
> so that `{:p}` formatting uses the kernel's `%p` hashed format instead
> of printing raw pointer values, preventing kernel address space leaks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ke Sun <sunke@kylinos.cn>

Overall looks good to me, but one thing:

> +impl<T: ?Sized> Pointer for HashedPtr<T> {
> +    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result {
> +        use crate::str::CStrExt as _;
> +
> +        let mut buf = [0u8; 32];
> +
> +        // SAFETY: `buf` is a valid, writable buffer of 32 bytes, sufficient for all architectures
> +        // (max 19 bytes for 64-bit). The format string `c"0x%p"` is null-terminated and `%p`
> +        // matches the pointer argument.
> +        let len = unsafe {
> +            crate::bindings::scnprintf(
> +                buf.as_mut_ptr().cast(),
> +                buf.len(),
> +                // Rust's `{:p}` includes a "0x" prefix, the kernel's `%p` does not.
> +                c"0x%p".as_char_ptr(),
> +                self.0.cast::<core::ffi::c_void>(),
> +            )
> +        };

When given a null pointer, this will print 0x(null), which seems a bit
weird. It may also print 0x(ptrval) or 0x(____ptrval____) during early
boot.

It seems like it'd be nice to special-case these to provide better
output in those cases.

Alice

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-06  5:18 [PATCH RESEND v13 0/2] rust: Add safe pointer formatting support Ke Sun
2026-07-06  5:18 ` [PATCH RESEND v13 1/2] rust: fmt: fix {:p} printing stack addresses Ke Sun
2026-08-05  8:15   ` Alice Ryhl
2026-08-06 14:14   ` Gary Guo
2026-07-06  5:18 ` [PATCH RESEND v13 2/2] rust: fmt: route {:p} through HashedPtr to prevent address leaks Ke Sun
2026-08-05  8:15   ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2026-08-06 14:24     ` Link Mauve
2026-08-07  7:45       ` Alvin Sun
2026-08-07  8:01     ` Ke Sun
2026-08-06 14:41   ` Gary Guo
2026-08-07  7:32     ` Ke Sun
2026-08-05  8:16 ` [PATCH RESEND v13 0/2] rust: Add safe pointer formatting support Alice Ryhl
2026-08-05 12:30   ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-08-05 14:48     ` Miguel Ojeda

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