[PATCH] staging: vchiq: don't leak kernel address

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Oct 8 14:25:17 UTC 2019


On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 04:21:54PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 3:16 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > The subject doesn't match the patch.  It should just be "remove useless
> > printk".
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> >
> 
> Well, it avoids leaking an address by removing an useless printk.
> It seems that GKH already picked the patch in his staging tree, but
> I'm fine with both subjects, really,

The address wasn't leaked because it was already %pK.  The subject
says there is an info leak security problem, when the opposite is true.

regards,
dan carpenter



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