Re: [PATCH net-next 6/7] ice: Don't use %pK through printk or tracepoints

[Przemek Kitszel]

On 4/14/25 10:26, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> In the past %pK was preferable to %p as it would not leak raw pointer
> values into the kernel log.
> Since commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
> the regular %p has been improved to avoid this issue.
> Furthermore, restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant to be used
> through printk(). They can still unintentionally leak raw pointers or
> acquire sleeping looks in atomic contexts.
>
> Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer and
> easier to reason about.
> There are still a few users of %pK left, but these use it through seq_file,
> for which its usage is safe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
thank you!
Acked-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>