Re: [BUG] What is "__ptrval__" in my dmesg logs? Bad "%p" expansion?

This is not a bug, rather, this is a security feature that fixes the original behavior, which is now considered an infoleak vul- nerability. Currently, the address of internal data structures are protected by Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR), it forces attackers to bruteforce the

[BUG] What is "__ptrval__" in my dmesg logs? Bad "%p" expansion?

Hi. I've suddenly realised that my kernel dmesg logs contain lines like: [0.00] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000f5c20-0x000f5c2f] mapped at [(ptrval)] [0.00] Base memory trampoline at [(ptrval)] 98000 size 24576 and [0.00] percpu: Embedded 41 pages/cpu