Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: protect kernel from panic due to non-canonical pointer dereference

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 10:43:07AM +0000, Haakon Bugge wrote:
> > On 18 Oct 2022, at 22:49, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 08:30:01PM +0000, Jane Chu wrote:

...

> > Obviously, to see the crash. And let kernel _to crash_. Isn't it what we need
> > to see a bug as early as possible?
> 
> If you follow that argument, why doesn't the kernel crash when the pointer
> is, e.g., a NULL pointer? According to you, shouldn't it crash a early as
> possible in that case also?

Because it is _special_. It's not just an invalid pointer. There may be
very well good cases where we supply (valid!) NULL pointers to the printf().

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko