Re: [PATCH] binder: don't use %pK through printk

[Carlos Llamas]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 03:29:50PM +0100, 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 locks 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>
> ---
Thanks Thomas,

Acked-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>