Hi Chan, Thank you for pointing me to the right direction. Pointer Types ============= Pointers printed without a specifier extension (i.e unadorned %p) are hashed to give a unique identifier without leaking kernel addresses to user space. On 64 bit machines the first 32 bits are zeroed. If you _really_ want the address see %px below. ⁣Get BlueMail for Android ​ On Jan 14, 2022, 01:36, at 01:36, Chan Kim wrote: >Hi, > >To print kernel virtual address, you should use %px instead of %p in >the printk. > >Probably that’s why you couldn’t see the pointer values correctly. > >Chan > > > >From: admin LI >Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 6:02 AM >To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org >Subject: How to disable address randomization ? > > > >Hi, > >I'm developing a kernel module for an ARM machine, while debugging I >found addresses >printed are all randomized and useless for debugging. > >To prove I was not crazy I wrote this small program: > >--------------------------------- >#include >#include >#include >#include > >MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); >MODULE_AUTHOR("Somebody"); >MODULE_DESCRIPTION("A simple example Linux module."); >MODULE_VERSION("0.01"); > >static int __init example_init(void) { > uint32_t a; > uint32_t b; > uint32_t c; > uint8_t d[10]; > uint8_t *e; > > printk(KERN_INFO "Hello, World!\n"); > printk(KERN_INFO "&a %p\n",&a); > printk(KERN_INFO "&b %p\n",&b); > printk(KERN_INFO "&c %p\n",&c); > printk(KERN_INFO "&d %p\n",d); > printk(KERN_INFO "&d[0] %p\n",&d[0]); > printk(KERN_INFO "&d[1] %p\n",&d[1]); > > e = kmalloc(10, GFP_KERNEL); > printk(KERN_INFO "&e[0] %p\n",&e[0]); > printk(KERN_INFO "&e[1] %p\n",&e[1]); > > kfree(e); > > return 0; >} > >static void __exit example_exit(void) { > printk(KERN_INFO "Goodbye, World!\n"); >} > >module_init(example_init); >module_exit(example_exit); >--------------------------------- >And it gave me this output: > >Hello, World! >&a b3f9fa31 >&b 27e1c68a >&c da50d287 >&d 9f9aec2b >&d[0] 9f9aec2b >&d[1] cc627580 >&e[0] 98b8c9eb >&e[1] 45f248f8 > >Then I tested on my debian host machine which gave me the same kind of >randomized addresses. > >When I search randomization the only thing I found is KASLR which I >don't think is the same thing.