Hi,

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> With -Wformat-nonliteral, gcc complains
> 
> drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c: In function ‘hwmon_genattr’:
> drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c:282:6: warning: format not a string literal, argument 
> types not checked [-Wformat-nonliteral]
>       index + hwmon_attr_base(type));
> 
> Add a runtime check to ensure that the template indeed has a single %d
> printf specifier. Using fmtcheck() also makes gcc verify that the
> expression 'index + hwmon_attr_base(type)' is suitable for %d.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>

I'll defer to others on this one; let me know if the series is otherwise
accepted. Personally I think that the compiler is at fault here
for not detecting that the format string can not be wrong (since it
is declared and used only in this file), and I find the fmtcheck()
confusing/obfuscating.

Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> index 33d51281272b..ec6f5f36b5fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ static struct attribute *hwmon_genattr(struct device *dev,
>       if (type == hwmon_chip) {
>               name = (char *)template;
>       } else {
> -             scnprintf(hattr->name, sizeof(hattr->name), template,
> +             scnprintf(hattr->name, sizeof(hattr->name),
> +                       fmtcheck(template, "type%dwhat", 0),
>                         index + hwmon_attr_base(type));
>               name = hattr->name;
>       }

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