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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] hash addresses printed with %p
    On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 01:14:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> wrote:
    > >
    > > If you haven't wasted enough time on this can you tell me what you mean
    > > by 'completely breaks %pK'?
    >
    > The whole point of %pK is that it's a "safer" %p that doesn't leak
    > information if you set kptr_restrict.
    >
    > With that patch-set, it now leaks _more_ information than %p when
    > kptr_restrict isn't set, so %pK went from "be more careful than %p" to
    > "be wildly less careful than %p".
    >
    > Not because %pK itself changed, but because the semantics of %p did.
    > The baseline moved, and the "safe" version did not.

    Oh sweet, I was shitting bricks when I read your email :)

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