Re: [PATCH] habanalabs: use %px instead of %p in error print

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 10:54:25 EST


On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:42 PM Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:46 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 1:43 AM Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > When parsing the address of an internal command buffer, the driver prints
> > > an error if the buffer's address is not in the range of the device's DRAM
> > > or SRAM memory address space.
> > >
> > > Use %px to print the real address that the user gave the driver and not a
> > > hashed value, so the user will get a clue regarding the origin of his
> > > error.
> > >
> > > Note that if the print occurs, the pointer that is printed is a
> > > user's virtual address and not some kind of physical address.
> >
> > Err, which virtual address space is this? If this is mapped into the
> > kernel's virtual address space, this should not be %px...
> No, it's not mapped to kernel in any way.
> It's supposed to be an address in the device's address space.
> As this is an error message, it's either a wrong address in the
> device's address space, or it's a user-space virtual address.

Okay, thanks! :)

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Kees Cook