Re: [PATCH] net: sfc: avoid format string warning
From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-03-20 18:00:56
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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-03-20 18:00:56
Also in:
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 04:19:16PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Three sfc drivers contain the same *_fill_test() function that takes
a format string argument that gets passed down to snprintf(), producing
a warning with clang-22:
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/ethtool.c:227:60: error: diagnostic behavior may be improved by adding
the 'format(printf, 7, 8)' attribute to the declaration of 'ef4_fill_test' [-Werror,-Wmissing-format-attribute]
210 | snprintf(test_str, sizeof(test_str), test_format, test_id);
| ^
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/ethtool.c:210:13: note: 'ef4_fill_test' declared here
Rework these to take a varargs based test_format that allows better
type checking and avoids this warning.
Fixes: 3273c2e8c66a ("[netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>Nice rework! Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> -- Kees Cook