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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 46/92] x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers
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On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 08:21:36PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:14:18AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > I would just revert this commit from kernels earlier than 4.15; this
> > %p usage is in debugging, so %pK doesn't make much sense here.
> 
> Yes, just drop it. That's only for debugging alternatives and not really
> needed in stable.

Now dropped from 4.9.y and 4.14.y, thanks!

greg k-h