[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Fix printing of process table address

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Wed Mar 9 20:09:21 AEDT 2022



Le 28/03/2018 à 05:09, Balbir Singh a écrit :
> New changes to %p cause the information printed at boot
> about radix-mmu partition and process table opaque, if
> we really want to protect those values, we should make
> dmesg more secure using CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT
> 
> Before the patches:
> 
> radix-mmu: Partition table         (ptrval)
> radix-mmu: Process table         (ptrval) and radix root for kernel:         (ptrval)
> 
> After the patches
> 
> radix-mmu: Partition table c0000000ffff0000
> radix-mmu: Process table c0000000fe000000 and radix root for kernel: c0000000015a0000
> 
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>


This patch was superseded by ec5b705c4836 ("powerpc/mm/radix: remove 
useless kernel messages")

> ---
>   arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> index 2e10a964e290..3f676e89c3a6 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> @@ -329,7 +329,8 @@ static void __init radix_init_pgtable(void)
>   	 * physical address here.
>   	 */
>   	register_process_table(__pa(process_tb), 0, PRTB_SIZE_SHIFT - 12);
> -	pr_info("Process table %p and radix root for kernel: %p\n", process_tb, init_mm.pgd);
> +	pr_info("Process table %px and radix root for kernel: %px\n",
> +			process_tb, init_mm.pgd);
>   	asm volatile("ptesync" : : : "memory");
>   	asm volatile(PPC_TLBIE_5(%0,%1,2,1,1) : :
>   		     "r" (TLBIEL_INVAL_SET_LPID), "r" (0));
> @@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ static void __init radix_init_partition_table(void)
>   	mmu_partition_table_set_entry(0, dw0, 0);
>   
>   	pr_info("Initializing Radix MMU\n");
> -	pr_info("Partition table %p\n", partition_tb);
> +	pr_info("Partition table %px\n", partition_tb);
>   }
>   
>   void __init radix_init_native(void)


More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list