Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 11 authors, 2022-07-11

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Clang -Wformat warning fixes

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2022-06-10 01:19:26
Also in: alsa-devel, linux-acpi, linux-edac, linux-mm, lkml, llvm, netfilter-devel

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 16:16:16 -0700 Bill Wendling [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 4:03 PM Jan Engelhardt [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Friday 2022-06-10 00:49, Bill Wendling wrote:
quoted
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 3:25 PM Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Thu,  9 Jun 2022 22:16:19 +0000 Bill Wendling [off-list ref] wrote:
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This patch set fixes some clang warnings when -Wformat is enabled.
tldr:

-       printk(msg);
+       printk("%s", msg);

Otherwise these changes are a
useless consumer of runtime resources.
Calling a "printf" style function is already insanely expensive.
[...]
The "printk" and similar functions all have the "__printf" attribute.
I don't know of a modification to that attribute which can turn off
this type of check.
Perhaps you can split vprintk_store in the middle (after the call to
vsnprintf), and offer the second half as a function of its own (e.g.
"puts"). Then the tldr could be

- printk(msg);
+ puts(msg);
That might be a nice compromise. Andrew, what do you think?
Sure.  It's surprising that we don't already have a puts().
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