Patch "[PATCH] Revert "x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers"" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

[PATCH] Revert "x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers"

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
revert-x86-alternative-print-unadorned-pointers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:14:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers"

This reverts commit 67eb59b8ecfb319438706cee2cb67a3045b54494.

It's not needed in 4.14.y and only causes messy debugging messages, if anyone actually cares about these random debug messages in the first place (doubtful).

---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ recompute_jump(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *
 	tgt_rip  = next_rip + o_dspl;
 	n_dspl = tgt_rip - orig_insn;
 
-	DPRINTK("target RIP: %px, new_displ: 0x%x", tgt_rip, n_dspl);
+	DPRINTK("target RIP: %p, new_displ: 0x%x", tgt_rip, n_dspl);
 
 	if (tgt_rip - orig_insn >= 0) {
 		if (n_dspl - 2 <= 127)

@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ static void __init_or_module noinline op
 	add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen);
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
-	DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%px: [%d:%d) optimized NOPs: ",
+	DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%p: [%d:%d) optimized NOPs: ",
 		   instr, a->instrlen - a->padlen, a->padlen);
 }
 

@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alt
 	u8 *instr, *replacement;
 	u8 insnbuf[MAX_PATCH_LEN];
 
-	DPRINTK("alt table %px, -> %px", start, end);
+	DPRINTK("alt table %p -> %p", start, end);
 	/*
 	 * The scan order should be from start to end. A later scanned
 	 * alternative code can overwrite previously scanned alternative code.

@@ -389,14 +389,14 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alt
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		DPRINTK("feat: %d*32+%d, old: (%px len: %d), repl: (%px, len: %d), pad: %d",
+		DPRINTK("feat: %d*32+%d, old: (%p, len: %d), repl: (%p, len: %d), pad: %d",
 			a->cpuid >> 5,
 			a->cpuid & 0x1f,
 			instr, a->instrlen,
 			replacement, a->replacementlen, a->padlen);
 
-		DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%px: old_insn: ", instr);
-		DUMP_BYTES(replacement, a->replacementlen, "%px: rpl_insn: ", replacement);
+		DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%p: old_insn: ", instr);
+		DUMP_BYTES(replacement, a->replacementlen, "%p: rpl_insn: ", replacement);
 
 		memcpy(insnbuf, replacement, a->replacementlen);
 		insnbuf_sz = a->replacementlen;

@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alt
 				 a->instrlen - a->replacementlen);
 			insnbuf_sz += a->instrlen - a->replacementlen;
 		}
-		DUMP_BYTES(insnbuf, insnbuf_sz, "%px: final_insn: ", instr);
+		DUMP_BYTES(insnbuf, insnbuf_sz, "%p: final_insn: ", instr);
 
 		text_poke_early(instr, insnbuf, insnbuf_sz);
 	}

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