Re: [PATCH] efifb: Don't show the mapping VA

From: Tomi Valkeinen
Date: Fri May 13 2016 - 07:44:12 EST


On 12/05/16 02:57, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The framebuffer mapping virtual address leaks information about the
> kernel memory layout. Stop logging it.
>
> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
> index 95d293b7445a..3dcaf4e82885 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
> @@ -247,10 +247,8 @@ static int efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> goto err_release_fb;
> }
>
> - printk(KERN_INFO "efifb: framebuffer at 0x%lx, mapped to 0x%p, "
> - "using %dk, total %dk\n",
> - efifb_fix.smem_start, info->screen_base,
> - size_remap/1024, size_total/1024);
> + printk(KERN_INFO "efifb: framebuffer at 0x%lx, using %dk, total %dk\n",
> + efifb_fix.smem_start, size_remap/1024, size_total/1024);
> printk(KERN_INFO "efifb: mode is %dx%dx%d, linelength=%d, pages=%d\n",
> efifb_defined.xres, efifb_defined.yres,
> efifb_defined.bits_per_pixel, efifb_fix.line_length,
>

Thanks, queued for 4.7.

Tomi

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