Re: [RESEND PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: add __printf attribute to die()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Jun 27 2021 - 11:01:40 EST


On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 11:07:28PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 01:38:51PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 64-bit cross build on a 32-bit platform... or Windows.
>
> Meh, nobody cares about those... :)
>
> Hmm, so looking at the PRI* inttypes.h things again, they're C99 and
> they kinda look more elegant as they don't make us cast stuff.
>
> So how does that look?
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
> index 04c5a44b9682..2582991ba216 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ static struct relocs relocs32;
> #if ELF_BITS == 64
> static struct relocs relocs32neg;
> static struct relocs relocs64;
> +#define FMT PRIu64
> +#else
> +#define FMT PRIu32
> #endif

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This works for me! It should fix the static checking tool that keeps
tripping over this pointless warning :)

Want to turn it into a real patch?

thanks,

greg k-h