On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:34:50PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > [The list of email addresses on CC: is getting quite lengthy, > so I hope I've included everyone.] > > Although hashing addresses printed via printk does make the > kernel more secure, it interferes with debugging, especially > with some functions like print_hex_dump() which always uses > hashed addresses. > > To avoid having to choose between %p and %px, it's easier to > add a kernel command line that treats all %p as %px. This > encourages developers to use %p more without making debugging > more difficult. > > Patches #1 and #2 upgrade the kselftest framework so that > it can report on tests that were skipped outright. This > is needed for the test_printf module which will now skip > %p hashing tests if hashing is disabled. > > Patch #2 upgrades the printf library to check the command > line. It also updates test_printf().
Side note to the future contributions. > Full series: > > Acked-by: Marco Elver <el...@google.com> That's what you usually add to each patch in the series individually. You may use simple oneliner for this, i.e. `git filter-branch --msg-filter ...` -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
