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include, lib: add __printf attributes to several function prototypes

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Using __printf attributes helps to detect several format string issues
at compile time (even though -Wformat-security is currently disabled in
Makefile).  For example it can detect when formatting a pointer as a
number, like the issue fixed in commit a3fa71c40f ("wl18xx: show
rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is"), or when the arguments
do not match the format string, c.f.  for example commit 5ce1aca814
("reiserfs: fix __RASSERT format string").

To prevent similar bugs in the future, add a __printf attribute to every
function prototype which needs one in include/linux/ and lib/.  These
functions were mostly found by using gcc's -Wsuggest-attribute=format
flag.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nicolas Iooss 2015-07-17 16:23:42 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 8db1486065
12 changed files with 36 additions and 30 deletions
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include/linux/device.h
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@ -637,8 +637,9 @@ extern int devres_release_group(struct device *dev, void *id);
/* managed devm_k.alloc/kfree for device drivers */
extern void *devm_kmalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp);
extern char *devm_kvasprintf(struct device *dev, gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt,
va_list ap);
extern __printf(3, 0)
char *devm_kvasprintf(struct device *dev, gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt,
va_list ap);
extern __printf(3, 4)
char *devm_kasprintf(struct device *dev, gfp_t gfp, const char *fmt, ...);
static inline void *devm_kzalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
@ -1011,12 +1012,10 @@ extern int __must_check device_reprobe(struct device *dev);
/*
* Easy functions for dynamically creating devices on the fly
*/
extern struct device *device_create_vargs(struct class *cls,
struct device *parent,
dev_t devt,
void *drvdata,
const char *fmt,
va_list vargs);
extern __printf(5, 0)
struct device *device_create_vargs(struct class *cls, struct device *parent,
dev_t devt, void *drvdata,
const char *fmt, va_list vargs);
extern __printf(5, 6)
struct device *device_create(struct class *cls, struct device *parent,
dev_t devt, void *drvdata,