On 10/26/23 01:40, Justin Stitt wrote:
Add some warnings for using ethtool_sprintf() where a simple
ethtool_puts() would suffice.

The two cases are:

1) Use ethtool_sprintf() with just two arguments:
|       ethtool_sprintf(&data, driver[i].name);
or
2) Use ethtool_sprintf() with a standalone "%s" fmt string:
|       ethtool_sprintf(&data, "%s", driver[i].name);

The former may cause -Wformat-security warnings while the latter is just
not preferred. Both are safely in the category of warnings, not errors.

Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
---
  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7d16f863edf1..1ba9ce778746 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7020,6 +7020,19 @@ sub process {
                             "Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over 
strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90\n"; . $herecurr);
                }
+# ethtool_sprintf uses that should likely be ethtool_puts
+               if (   $line =~ 
/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/   ) {

no need for whitespace right after opening parenthesis, same at the end

Does it work for ethtool_sprintf(calls broken
                                 into multiple lines)?

BTW, I really like this series!

+                       WARN("ETHTOOL_SPRINTF",
+                            "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with only two 
arguments" . $herecurr);
+               }
+
+               # use $rawline because $line loses %s via sanitization and thus 
we can't match against it.
+               if (   $rawline =~ 
/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*\"\%s\"\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/   ) {
+                       WARN("ETHTOOL_SPRINTF2",
+                            "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with standalone 
\"%s\" specifier" . $herecurr);
+               }
+
+
  # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
                if ($perl_version_ok &&
                    defined $stat &&


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