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Tobin C. Harding ad67b74d24 printk: hash addresses printed with %p
Currently there exist approximately 14 000 places in the kernel where
addresses are being printed using an unadorned %p. This potentially
leaks sensitive information regarding the Kernel layout in memory. Many
of these calls are stale, instead of fixing every call lets hash the
address by default before printing. This will of course break some
users, forcing code printing needed addresses to be updated.

Code that _really_ needs the address will soon be able to use the new
printk specifier %px to print the address.

For what it's worth, usage of unadorned %p can be broken down as
follows (thanks to Joe Perches).

$ git grep -E '%p[^A-Za-z0-9]' | cut -f1 -d"/" | sort | uniq -c
   1084 arch
     20 block
     10 crypto
     32 Documentation
   8121 drivers
   1221 fs
    143 include
    101 kernel
     69 lib
    100 mm
   1510 net
     40 samples
      7 scripts
     11 security
    166 sound
    152 tools
      2 virt

Add function ptr_to_id() to map an address to a 32 bit unique
identifier. Hash any unadorned usage of specifier %p and any malformed
specifiers.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
2017-11-29 12:09:02 +11:00
arch Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-11-26 15:03:49 -08:00
block treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Keys devel 2017-11-24 11:54:11 +11:00
Documentation printk: hash addresses printed with %p 2017-11-29 12:09:02 +11:00
drivers Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:39:20 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
include Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:39:20 -08:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-17 16:56:17 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:39:20 -08:00
lib printk: hash addresses printed with %p 2017-11-29 12:09:02 +11:00
mm block/laptop_mode: Convert timers to use timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:46:44 -08:00
net Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
samples kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
scripts Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
security Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
sound Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:11:54 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt Trimmed second batch of KVM changes for Linux 4.15 2017-11-24 19:44:25 -10:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.