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Re: [PATCH] sysfs print name of undiscoverable attribute group as well

From Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] sysfs print name of undiscoverable attribute group as well
Date 2016-09-18 09:40 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:44:06PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Print the name of an undiscoverable attribute group as well, not just
> the pointer's address.

Shouldn't we just drop the pointer address and use the name?  It's bad
form to be printing kernel addresses to the syslog these days given that
it is a security information leak :(

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] sysfs print name of undiscoverable attribute group as well Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> - 2016-09-15 21:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] sysfs print name of undiscoverable attribute group as  well Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-09-18 09:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] sysfs print name of undiscoverable attribute group as  well Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> - 2016-09-18 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] sysfs print name of undiscoverable attribute group as  well Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> - 2016-09-19 10:10 +0200

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