RE: [PATCH v2] vsprintf: don't obfuscate NULL and error pointers

From: David Laight
Date: Fri Apr 10 2020 - 05:40:18 EST


From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 08 April 2020 17:23
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:08 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > For the better understanding the current state of affairs I suggest to respin
> > new version after rc1 and we will see again.

If the hash of a pointer ends up being one of the values that
wouldn't be hashed, perhaps it should be hashed again.
That will remove any possible confusion.

David

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