Patch "vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

Patch "vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     vsprintf-avoid-misleading-null-for-px.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3a129cc2151425e5aeb69aeb25fbc994ec738137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 18:45:21 +0100
Subject: vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px

From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

commit 3a129cc2151425e5aeb69aeb25fbc994ec738137 upstream.

Like %pK already does, print "00000000" instead.

This confused people -- the convention is that "(null)" means you tried to
dereference a null pointer as opposed to printing the address.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180204174521.21383-1-kilobyte@angband.pl
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 lib/vsprintf.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf
 {
 	const int default_width = 2 * sizeof(void *);
 
-	if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K') {
+	if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K' && *fmt != 'x') {
 		/*
 		 * Print (null) with the same width as a pointer so it makes
 		 * tabular output look nice.


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kilobyte@angband.pl are

queue-4.15/vsprintf-avoid-misleading-null-for-px.patch