On Tue, Feb 3, 2026, at 19:11, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 9:44 AM Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2026, at 18:24, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> I also see the comment about bstr_printf() mention that it
>> uses a vsnprintf() compatible format, which would indicate that
>> marking the format argument isn't wrong, though I agree it is
>> not actually useful if there are no callers that pass a string
>> literal.
>
> In general I don't think it's a good idea to add nop annotations
> just to shut up over eager compiler warning.
I've tried removing these three below, which now gives me
a clean build with -Wsuggest-attribute=format, after the
other three patches I posted for unrelated code.
Arnd
diff --git a/include/linux/seq_file.h b/include/linux/seq_file.h
index d6ebf0596510..2fb266ea69fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_file.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ int seq_open_private(struct file *, const struct
seq_operations *, int);
int seq_release_private(struct inode *, struct file *);
#ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
-__printf(2, 0)
void seq_bprintf(struct seq_file *m, const char *f, const u32 *binary);
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 1b564c36d721..b850bd91b3d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ int __sysfs_match_string(const char * const *array, size_t
n, const char *s);
#define sysfs_match_string(_a, _s) __sysfs_match_string(_a, ARRAY_SIZE(_a), _s)
#ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
-__printf(3, 0) int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt,
va_list args);
-__printf(3, 0) int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const
u32 *bin_buf);
+int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
+int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf);
#endif
extern ssize_t memory_read_from_buffer(void *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
