From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ref_tracker: use %p instead of %px in debugfs dentry name
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:13:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250731071355.2da07d06@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250731-reftrack-dbgfs-v1-1-143ee1cfda44@kernel.org>
On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:57:05 -0400 Jeff Layton wrote:
> As Kees points out, this is a kernel address leak, and debugging is
> not a sufficiently good reason to expose the real kernel address.
>
> Fixes: 65b584f53611 ("ref_tracker: automatically register a file in debugfs for a ref_tracker_dir")
> Reported-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/202507301603.62E553F93@keescook/
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> ---
> I trust that Kees is right here, so let's go ahead and fix this. I gave
> this a quick build and boot this morning and it did the right thing.
Assuming Andrew will take this one since you haven't cced netdev@ ..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-31 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-31 11:57 Jeff Layton
2025-07-31 14:13 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-08-05 20:39 ` Jeff Layton
2025-07-31 16:32 ` Kees Cook
2025-07-31 19:01 ` Jeff Layton
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