On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:33 AM Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [accidentally sent from the wrong email address, so resending] > > [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(). It's a bit hard in some mailers (like Gmail) to see the different versions of your patches. Can you use in the future - either `git format-patch -v<N> ...`, where <N> is a version - or `git format-patch --subject-prefix="PATCH vX / RESEND / etc" ...` ? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
