[PATCH] nvme: work around -Wformat-security warning

Nilay Shroff nilay at linux.ibm.com
Thu Sep 17 01:18:12 PDT 2026


On 9/16/26 5:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann<arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> Passing a string variable into dev_set_name() causes a warning
> when building with -Wformat-security enabled:
> 
> drivers/nvme/host/core.c: In function 'nvme_cdev_add':
> drivers/nvme/host/core.c:3911:9: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
>   3911 |         ret = dev_set_name(cdev_device, name);
> 
> Remove the temporary strings and let dev_set_name() do the
> same thing internally.
> 
> Fixes: 26acdaa357cd ("nvme: fix crash and memory leak during invalid cdev teardown")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann<arnd at arndb.de>

Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay at linux.ibm.com>



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