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

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Thu Sep 17 12:51:32 PDT 2026


On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 01:44:51PM +0200, 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.

Thanks, applied to nvme-7.3.



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