On 10/23/18 9:19 PM, Suman Anna wrote:
> The virtio_rpmsg_bus driver uses the "%p" format-specifier for
> printing the vring buffer address. This prints only a hashed
> pointer even for previliged users. Use "%pK" instead so that
> the address can be printed during debug using kptr_restrict
> sysctl.
> 


s/previliged/privileged

You describe what the code does, but not why you need this. %pK is used
for only about 1% of pointer printing, why do you want to leak this
address to userspace at all?

Andrew


> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c 
> b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> index f29dee731026..1345f373a1a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ static int rpmsg_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>               goto vqs_del;
>       }
>  
> -     dev_dbg(&vdev->dev, "buffers: va %p, dma %pad\n",
> +     dev_dbg(&vdev->dev, "buffers: va %pK, dma %pad\n",
>               bufs_va, &vrp->bufs_dma);
>  
>       /* half of the buffers is dedicated for RX */
> 

Reply via email to