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

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On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 09:36:02AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> 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 :(

Probably yes. Given it's not etremely helpful when debugging either
I'll send a v2 with the address dropped.

Thanks,
	Johannes

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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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