Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata: Fix kernel pointer leak

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On 10/1/21 4:18 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:

[...]
>>>> Pointers should be printed with %p or %px rather than cast to
>>>> 'unsigned long' and pinted with %lx
>>>
>>> s/pinted/printed
>>>
>>>> Change %lx to %p to print the secured pointer.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Guo Zhi <qtxuning1999@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/ata/pata_atp867x.c | 10 +++++-----
>>>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_atp867x.c b/drivers/ata/pata_atp867x.c
>>>> index 2bc5fc81efe3..c32b95f48e50 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/ata/pata_atp867x.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_atp867x.c
>>>> @@ -447,11 +447,11 @@ static int atp867x_ata_pci_sff_init_host(struct ata_host *host)
>>>>   #ifdef	ATP867X_DEBUG
>>>>   		atp867x_check_ports(ap, i);
>>>>   #endif
>>>> -		ata_port_desc(ap, "cmd 0x%lx ctl 0x%lx",
>>>> -			(unsigned long)ioaddr->cmd_addr,
>>>> -			(unsigned long)ioaddr->ctl_addr);
>>>> -		ata_port_desc(ap, "bmdma 0x%lx",
>>>> -			(unsigned long)ioaddr->bmdma_addr);
>>>> +		ata_port_desc(ap, "cmd 0x%p ctl 0x%p",
>>>> +			ioaddr->cmd_addr,
>>>> +			ioaddr->ctl_addr);
>>>> +		ata_port_desc(ap, "bmdma 0x%p",
>>>> +			ioaddr->bmdma_addr);
>>>>   
>>>>   		mask |= 1 << i;
>>>>   	}
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks OK to me. But please fix the commit title to:
>>>
>>> "ata: atp867x: Fix pointer value print"
>>>
>>> "pointer leak" is too scary for what is only a simple printk problem.
>>
>>     It's not a simple printk() problem, it's an kernel info leak that he's 
>> fixing. But, as I said, this driver doesn't use MMIO, so "leaks" only I/O port 
>> addresses.
> 
> OK. I interpreted "leak" as memory leak... So the problem is print of pointer
> addresses that are unused. But if they are, shouldn't the pointers be NULL ? (I
> am absolutely not familiar with this driver, never looked at it).

  They are used to map the I/O parts, so the driver can use ioread*()/iowrite()*.

[...]


MBR, Sergey




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