Re: [PATCH] clkdev: report over-sized strings when creating clkdev entries

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 09:02:16AM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 06:02:54PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Stephen Boyd (2024-05-01 17:59:16)
> > > Quoting Russell King (Oracle) (2024-03-15 04:47:55)
> > > > Report an error when an attempt to register a clkdev entry results in a
> > > > truncated string so the problem can be easily spotted.
> > > > 
> > > > Reported by: Duanqiang Wen <duanqiangwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > 
> > > Applied to clk-next
> > > 
> > 
> > And backed out because I get a compilation failure
> > 
> > drivers/clk/clkdev.c: In function 'vclkdev_alloc':
> > drivers/clk/clkdev.c:182:17: error: function 'vclkdev_alloc' might be a candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format]
> >   182 |                 res = vsnprintf(cla->dev_id, sizeof(cla->dev_id), dev_fmt, ap);
> >       |                 ^~~
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:244: drivers/clk/clkdev.o] Error 1
> > make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:485: drivers/clk] Error 2
> 
> It builds fine for me. I don't get this _error_, and it's really no
> different from what it originally was - instead of using vcsnprintf()
> we're now using vsnprintf(). That should make no difference what so
> ever.

.. and I've just checked, and it builds entirely cleanly for me.

I'll merge it.

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