Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: add userspace pointers

[Alice Ryhl]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 01:53:20PM +0100, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > > Is some sort of `Debug` implementation useful?
> >
> > Leaking pointer addresses in logs is frowned upon in the kernel, so I
> > don't think we should include that.
>
> s/frowned upon/forbidden/ :)

:)

> Along those lines, you all are tieing in the "I want to print a pointer,
> so hash it properly before I do so" logic from rust like we have in c,
> right?  Ideally you'd use the same logic if at all possible.
>
> If not, that probably needs to be done so that you don't accidentally
> start leaking things.

I don't know what the status of this is. For anything I've added, I've
just made it entirely impossible to print addresses, hashed or not.

Alice