kmalloc - Address is not consecutive

ckim ckim at etri.re.kr
Thu Aug 19 09:29:23 EDT 2021


Hi! this one is easy :)For printing pointer in kernel space, you should use %px  not %p as format specifier. I heard this is for security reason(?).Chan Kim내 Galaxy에서 보냄
-------- 원본 이메일 --------발신: wuzhouhui <wuzhouhui14 at mails.ucas.ac.cn> 날짜: 21/8/19  오후 9:17  (GMT+09:00) 받은 사람: Lloyd <lloydkl.tech at gmail.com>, kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org 제목: Re: kmalloc - Address is not consecutive On 8/19/21 6:54 PM, Lloyd wrote:> Hi,>> I am trying to print the address of consecutive locations in a > memory allocated using kmalloc. It prints non contiguous addresses! I > tried with kmalloc_array, and  normal array on stack, I got the same  > result. May I know the reason? The code fragment for array and result > are given below.>> uint8_t MyArray[100]={'0'};> printk(KERN_INFO "\nAddress is-> %p\n",&MyArray[0]);> printk(KERN_INFO "\nAddress is-> %p\n",&MyArray[1]);> printk(KERN_INFO "\nAddress is-> %p\n",&MyArray[2]);>>> [ 8684.613909]               Address is-> 00000000b3330991> [ 8684.613914]               Address is-> 000000000519068c> [ 8684.613915]               Address is-> 00000000e448ca76>Quoted from Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst:> A raw pointer value may be printed with %p which will hash the address> before printing. The kernel also supports extended specifiers for printing> pointers of different types.So the address printed neither logical nor physical address.> Thanks a lot,>   Lloyd>>> _______________________________________________> Kernelnewbies mailing list> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies_______________________________________________Kernelnewbies mailing listKernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.orghttps://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
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