Re: [PATCH] infiniband hfi1: fix misuse of %x in ipoib_tx.c

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:05:42AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 9/22/21 10:51 AM, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote:
> > > Subject: [PATCH] infiniband hfi1: fix misuse of %x in ipoib_tx.c
> > > 
> > > Pointers should be printed with %p or %px rather than cast to (unsigned long
> > > long) and printed with %llx.
> > > Change %llx to %p to print the pointer.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Guo Zhi <qtxuning1999@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The unsigned long long was originally used to insure the entire accurate pointer as emitted.
> > 
> > This is to ensure the pointers in prints and event traces match values in stacks and register dumps.
> > 
> > I think the %p will obfuscate the pointer so %px is correct for our use case.
> 
> How about applying Guo's patch and adding a configuration option to the
> kernel for disabling pointer hashing for %p and related format specifiers?

Isn't kptr_restrict sysctl is for that?

> Pointer hashing is useful on production systems but not on development
> systems.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.
>