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

Russell King (Oracle) linux at armlinux.org.uk
Thu May 2 01:02:16 PDT 2024


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 at net-swift.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> > > ---
> > 
> > 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.

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