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Subject[PATCH] doc: update 'unique identifiers'
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Advice about what to use as a unique identifier is no longer valid since
patch series was merged to hash pointers printed with %p. We can use
this as a unique identifier now.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
---
Documentation/security/self-protection.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst b/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst
index 60c8bd8b77bf..f10f47cad825 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ Unique identifiers
------------------

Kernel memory addresses must never be used as identifiers exposed to
-userspace. Instead, use an atomic counter, an idr, or similar unique
-identifier.
+userspace. Printk specifier %p hashes addresses by default now and can be
+used as a unique identifier.

Memory initialization
---------------------
--
2.7.4
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