On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 04:40:46PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> This whole series started from a simple fix (see the last patch)
> to make GCC (Debian 14.2.0-17) happy when compiling with `make W=1`
> (note, that CONFIG_WERROR=y and all warnings break the build!)
> down to a rabbit hole.
> 
> However starting from v2 the last patch doesn't require the first
> part, I prefer still to have them since the functions, while being
> _binary_ printf()-like, are still printf()-like. It also puts in align
> the tracing stuff with the rest and fixes the wrong parameter value.
> 
> These first 4 patches are organised in a strict order and can't be
> reshuffled, otherwise it will produce a warnings in between.
> 
> I believe the best route for the series is printk tree with immutable
> tag or branch for the others.
> 
> Alternatively the first 4 patches can be applied first as they
> are pretty much straightforward. They also can be squashed to one
> (as the same topic behind), but it all is up to the respective
> maintainers.
> 
> In v2:
> - split out patch 5 (Rasmus)
> - rewritten the approach for the va_format() fix (Rasmus)
> - amended tracing patch (removed a blank line and a __printf() in C file)
> 
> Andy Shevchenko (6):
>   seq_buf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
>   seq_file: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
>   tracing: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
>   vsnprintf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
>   vsnprintf: Drop unused const char fmt * in va_format()
>   vsnprintf: Silence false positive GCC warning for va_format()
> 
>  include/linux/seq_buf.h   |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/seq_file.h  |  1 +
>  include/linux/string.h    |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/trace.h     |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/trace_seq.h |  8 ++++----
>  kernel/trace/trace.c      | 11 +++--------
>  kernel/trace/trace.h      | 16 +++++++++-------
>  lib/vsprintf.c            |  9 +++++++--
>  8 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Cool; it'll be nice to get these marked up.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

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