Quoting Kees Cook (2021-09-20 07:29:54)

On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:22:02AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:

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Obscuring the pointers that slub shows when debugging makes for some
confusing slub debug messages:

 Padding overwritten. 0x0000000079f0674a-0x000000000d4dce17

Those addresses are hashed for kernel security reasons. If we're trying
to be secure with slub_debug on the commandline we have some big
problems given that we dump whole chunks of kernel memory to the kernel
logs. Let's force on the no_hash_pointers commandline flag when
slub_debug is on the commandline. This makes slub debug messages more
meaningful and if by chance a kernel address is in some slub debug
object dump we will have a better chance of figuring out what went
wrong.

Note that we don't use %px in the slub code because we want to reduce
the number of places that %px is used in the kernel. This also nicely
prints a big fat warning at kernel boot if slub_debug is on the
commandline so that we know that this kernel shouldn't be used on
production systems.

Eeeek. I missed this patch. NAK NAK. People use slub_debug for
production systems to gain redzoning, etc, as a layer of defense, and
they absolutely do not want %p-hashing disabled. %p hashing is
controlled by the no_hash_pointers boot param (since v5.12), and needs to stay
separate from slub_debug.

Can we please revert this in Linus's tree and in v5.14?

This is fine with me as long as debugging with slub_debug on the
commandline is possible. Would you prefer v1 of this patch series[1]
that uses the printk format to print unhashed pointers in slub debugging
messages?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210520013539.3733631-1-swboyd@chromium.org (local)