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bpf: Don't use %pK through printk
authorThomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:08:04 +0000 (14:08 +0200)
committerAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:34:56 +0000 (15:34 -0700)
commit2caa6b88e0ba0231fb4ff0ba8e73cedd5fb81fc8
tree7bd9506b6ff529822667ae5d9f6932d07e2027c4
parentbf0c2a84df9fb0f7779eb24c30198ef93f292e66
bpf: Don't use %pK through printk

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 locks in atomic contexts.

Switch to the regular pointer formatting which is safer and
easier to reason about.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250811-restricted-pointers-bpf-v1-1-a1d7cc3cb9e7@linutronix.de
include/linux/filter.h