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 looks 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@linutronix.de>
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Changes in v2:
- Drop wifi/ath patches, they are submitted on their own now
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250414-restricted-pointers-net-v1-0-12af0ce46cdd@linutronix.de
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Thomas Weißschuh (2):
ice: Don't use %pK through printk or tracepoints
net/mlx5: Don't use %pK through tracepoints
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_trace.h | 10 +++++-----
.../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/diag/dev_tracepoint.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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base-commit: cfb2e2c57aef75a414c0f18445c7441df5bc13be
change-id: 20250404-restricted-pointers-net-a8cddd03e5d1
Best regards,
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Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>