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| author | Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> | 2015-07-17 16:23:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -0700 |
| commit | 8db1486065141e619e4855b84e350ef32064f7e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 438cace62ece1251656b38fbf428cf5aa5184fb8 /lib | |
| parent | 7f9be77555bb2e52de84e9dddf7b4eb20cc6e171 (diff) | |
include, lib: add __printf attributes to several function prototypes
Using __printf attributes helps to detect several format string issues
at compile time (even though -Wformat-security is currently disabled in
Makefile). For example it can detect when formatting a pointer as a
number, like the issue fixed in commit a3fa71c40f18 ("wl18xx: show
rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is"), or when the arguments
do not match the format string, c.f. for example commit 5ce1aca81435
("reiserfs: fix __RASSERT format string").
To prevent similar bugs in the future, add a __printf attribute to every
function prototype which needs one in include/linux/ and lib/. These
functions were mostly found by using gcc's -Wsuggest-attribute=format
flag.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 2e3bd01964a9..3e3a5c3cb330 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -337,8 +337,9 @@ error: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_init); -static int kobject_add_varg(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *parent, - const char *fmt, va_list vargs) +static __printf(3, 0) int kobject_add_varg(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobject *parent, + const char *fmt, va_list vargs) { int retval; |