Re: v4.4-rc8: compile warning in scripts/recordmcount.c

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jan 04 2016 - 15:52:19 EST


On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:22:58 -0800
Petri Gynther <pgynther@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> vmlinux: scripts/recordmcount.c: In function âmainâ:
> vmlinux: scripts/recordmcount.c:589:4: warning: format not a string
> literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
> vmlinux: sprintf("%s: failed\n", file);
>
> Introduced by commit:
> commit a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e
> Author: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Dec 15 16:06:10 2015 -0500
>
> ftrace/scripts: Have recordmcount copy the object file
>
>
> Should that sprintf() be converted to fprintf(stderr, ...) instead?

I'm currently testing this patch:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1451516801-16951-1-git-send-email-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Seems my older gcc (and Fengguang Wu's gcc for his test box) doesn't
catch this.

-- Steve
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