From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:34:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1518425633-19803-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Finn Thain Cc: linux-m68k , Greg Ungerer , Kees Cook , Linux Kernel Mailing List Hi Finn, On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Finn Thain wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> Since commit ad67b74d2469d9b8 ("printk: hash addresses printed with >> %p"), the virtual memory layout printed during boot up contains "ptrval" >> instead of actual addresses: >> >> Memory: 268040K/276480K available (2979K kernel code, 310K rwdata, 784K rodata, 144K init, 172K bss, 8440K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) >> Virtual kernel memory layout: >> vector : 0x003d2e74 - 0x003d3274 ( 1 KiB) >> kmap : 0xd0000000 - 0xf0000000 ( 512 MiB) >> vmalloc : 0x11800000 - 0xd0000000 (3048 MiB) >> lowmem : 0x00000000 - 0x11000000 ( 272 MiB) >> .init : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval) ( 144 KiB) >> .text : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval) (2980 KiB) >> .data : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval) (1095 KiB) >> .bss : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval) ( 173 KiB) >> >> Instead of changing the printing to "%px", and leaking virtual memory >> layout information again, >> >> just remove the printing completely, cfr. e.g. >> commit 071929dbdd865f77 ("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory >> layout"). >> >> All interesting information (actual section sizes) is already printed by >> mem_init_print_info() just above anyway. > > Or maybe revert to %lx with pr_debug instead of pr_notice. Just a thought; (%px prints unhashed pointers, no need for %lx and cast) > I don't have any preference. Dynamic debug is hot these days, so that may be enabled by distros, still leaking the info. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds