Re: [PATCH v2] printk: hash addresses printed with %p

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 20:35:37 EST


On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:15:59 +1100
"Tobin C. Harding" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Does %p[FfSs] leak addresses? Well, I guess it does if they are not
> > found in kallsyms, but otherwise you have:
> >
> > function+0x<offset>
>
> You are correct %pF and %pS print an offset. Does this provide an attack vector,
> I didn't think so but I'm no security expert. If they do then we need to amend
> those calls also.

Hopefully not. We changed stack dumps to use them only instead of
showing addresses because of the location leak.

-- Steve