From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752556AbdK2CFe (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:05:34 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:60783 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751239AbdK2CF2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:05:28 -0500 X-ME-Sender: From: "Tobin C. Harding" To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" , Linus Torvalds , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , "Theodore Ts'o" , Kees Cook , Paolo Bonzini , Tycho Andersen , "Roberts, William C" , Tejun Heo , Jordan Glover , Greg KH , Petr Mladek , Joe Perches , Ian Campbell , Sergey Senozhatsky , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Steven Rostedt , Chris Fries , Dave Weinstein , Daniel Micay , Djalal Harouni , =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Network Development , David Miller , Stephen Rothwell , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Dmitry Vyukov , Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH V11 1/5] docs: correct documentation for %pK Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:05:01 +1100 Message-Id: <1511921105-3647-2-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1511921105-3647-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> References: <1511921105-3647-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Current documentation indicates that %pK prints a leading '0x'. This is not the case. Correct documentation for printk specifier %pK. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding --- Documentation/printk-formats.txt | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt index 361789df51ec..71b62db7eca2 100644 --- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt @@ -85,13 +85,12 @@ Examples:: printk("Faulted at %pS\n", (void *)regs->ip); printk(" %s%pB\n", (reliable ? "" : "? "), (void *)*stack); - Kernel Pointers =============== :: - %pK 0x01234567 or 0x0123456789abcdef + %pK 01234567 or 0123456789abcdef For printing kernel pointers which should be hidden from unprivileged users. The behaviour of ``%pK`` depends on the ``kptr_restrict sysctl`` - see -- 2.7.4