Re: [PATCH 1/1] genksyms: add printf format attribute to error_with_pos()

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 19:48:35 EST


2017-05-20 20:27 GMT+09:00 Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>:
> When compiling with -Wsuggest-attribute=format in HOSTCFLAGS, gcc
> complains that error_with_pos() may be declared with a printf format
> attribute:
>
> scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c:726:3: warning: function might be
> possible candidate for âgnu_printfâ format attribute
> [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
> vfprintf(stderr, fmt, args);
> ^~~~~~~~
>
> This would allow catching printf-format errors at compile time in
> callers to error_with_pos(). Add this attribute.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>


Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes. Thanks!



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada