Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add warning on %pk instead of %pK usage

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 14:49 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 22:26 +0000, Roberts, William C wrote:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 11:37 -0800, william.c.roberts@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > From: William Roberts <william.c.roberts@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sample output:
> > > > > WARNING: %pk is close to %pK, did you mean %pK?.
> > > > > \#20: FILE: drivers/char/applicom.c:230:
> > > > > +			printk(KERN_INFO "Could not allocate IRQ %d for PCI
> > > > 
> > > > Applicom
> > > > > +device. %pk\n", dev->irq, pci_get_class);
> > > > 
> > > > There isn't a single instance of this in the kernel tree.

Just in case anyone else wondered why this came up.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/02/lifting-hyper-visor-bypassing-samsungs.html