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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 09:36:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49fbcc8b-9522-f19c-d51c-d0059445abdc@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180205114952.6af99dff@gandalf.local.home>

On 02/05/2018 08:49 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:22:19 +0100
> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> 
>> My change touches %px only, where your concern doesn't apply.
>>
>> You're right, though, when it comes to %pK:
>>     printk("%%pK: %pK, %%px: %px\n", 0, 0);
>> says
>>     %pK: 00000000ba8bdc0a, %px: 0000000000000000
>>
>> So what should we do?  Avoid hashing 0?  Print a special value?
> 
> My personal opinion is that NULL should stay NULL and not be hashed.
> What security issue could be leaked by a NULL? I'm not a security
> person, that's a real question.

Agree.


-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-05 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-04 17:45 [PATCH] vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px Adam Borowski
2018-02-05  9:44 ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-05 10:03   ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-02-05 15:22     ` Adam Borowski
2018-02-05 16:49       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-05 17:36         ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2018-02-05 20:19           ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-02-05 18:57   ` Kees Cook
2018-02-05 20:15     ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-02-05 20:32       ` Kees Cook
2018-02-05 20:58         ` Adam Borowski
2018-02-05 22:22           ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-02-06 18:43             ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-07 15:03           ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-07 15:11             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-02-07 15:41               ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-07 15:48                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-02-08 15:29                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-09 12:03                   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-14 14:35                     ` Andy Shevchenko

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