kmalloc - Address is not consecutive

[Lloyd]

Thanks a lot, it worked :)

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 7:00 PM ckim <ckim at etri.re.kr> wrote:

> 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 Kim
>
> 내 Galaxy에서 보냄
>
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> 제목: Re: kmalloc - Address is not consecutive
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> 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
> >
> >
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