RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next 5/7] wifi: mwifiex: Don't use %pK through printk
From: Loktionov, Aleksandr
Date: Mon Apr 14 2025 - 12:16:29 EST
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> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next 5/7] wifi: mwifiex: Don't use %pK
> through printk
>
> 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>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c
> index
> dd2a42e732f2398892915e1a3ac88b7d3fb4ed3f..a760de191fce7340040b1
> bc74efb35cf52ce8368 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c
> @@ -2971,7 +2971,7 @@ static int mwifiex_init_pcie(struct mwifiex_adapter
> *adapter)
> goto err_iomap2;
> }
>
> - pr_notice("PCI memory map Virt0: %pK PCI memory map Virt2:
> %pK\n",
> + pr_notice("PCI memory map Virt0: %p PCI memory map Virt2: %p\n",
> card->pci_mmap, card->pci_mmap1);
>
> ret = mwifiex_pcie_alloc_buffers(adapter);
>
> --
> 2.49.0