Re: [PATCH] arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 03:02:12PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Printing kernel addresses should be done in limited circumstances, mostly
>> >> for debugging purposes. Printing out the virtual memory layout at every
>> >> kernel bootup doesn't really fall into this category so delete the prints.
>> >> There are other ways to get the same information.
>> >
>> > In looking at this patch, I wonder: is there anything listed here that
>> > is _missing_ from CONFIG_PTDUMP? I would expect all of these to
>> > already be listed there, but I thought I'd ask...
>> >
>> > Regardless:
>> >
>> > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > -Kees
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Did this patch get picked up? I don't see it in -next.
>
> I queued it now, should appear soon.

Great, thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security