Re: [GIT PULL] hash addresses printed with %p

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 4 December 2017 at 09:34, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 05:29:28PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>> On 12/04/17 at 08:36am, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:02:16AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>> > > +#define __ATTR_IRUSR(_name) {                                            \
>> > > + .attr   = { .name = __stringify(_name), .mode = S_IRUSR },      \
>> > > + .show   = _name##_show,                                         \
>> > > +}
>> >
>> > Ick, no, as others, including Linus, have said, using IRUSER is a pain
>> > in the ass to try to look up and remember what it is...
>> >
>> > Just use __ATTR() please, it should be fine for what you need to do,
>> > which is special-case a sysfs attribute.
>>
>> Hmm, I was hesitating to do that because it needs either long code
>> (over 80 chars) or some driver internal macros.
>>
>> There is already same issue in dmi-sysfs.c, it uses an internal macro
>> DMI_SYSFS_ATTR for 0400 attr.  I did not search all the kernel code,
>> there might be more for such special cases. Maybe we can add some
>> comment in sysfs.h to mention this is for some special case?
>>
>> I can do something similar as dmi sysfs code though.
>
> Hm, let me look at this this afternoon when I get through some stable
> patches, it shouldn't be that complex to need a whole new macro...
>

But wasn't that the whole point? That there is a macro that does what
you don't want (__ATTR_RO) and none that does what you do want?