Re: [PATCH 4.9 46/92] x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 13 2018 - 04:16:15 EST


On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 08:21:36PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:14:18AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > I would just revert this commit from kernels earlier than 4.15; this
> > %p usage is in debugging, so %pK doesn't make much sense here.
>
> Yes, just drop it. That's only for debugging alternatives and not really
> needed in stable.

Now dropped from 4.9.y and 4.14.y, thanks!

greg k-h