Re: [PATCH 2/2] elf: print userspace address with %lx

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Mar 15 2019 - 02:53:31 EST


On Thu 14-03-19 23:45:48, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Use %lx, save a cast.
>
> "addr" is userspace address so using (and mangling) pointer was never
> necessary.

There shouldn't be any mangling AFAIU. Documentation for pointer()
says

* - 'x' For printing the address. Equivalent to "%lx".

>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> fs/binfmt_elf.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> @@ -376,8 +376,8 @@ static unsigned long elf_map(struct file *filep, unsigned long addr,
> map_addr = vm_mmap(filep, addr, size, prot, type, off);
>
> if ((type & MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE) && map_addr == -EEXIST)
> - pr_info("%d (%s): Uhuuh, elf segment at %px requested but the memory is mapped already\n",
> - task_pid_nr(current), current->comm, (void *)addr);
> + pr_info("%d (%s): Uhuuh, elf segment at %lx requested but the memory is mapped already\n",
> + task_pid_nr(current), current->comm, addr);
>
> return(map_addr);
> }

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs