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 <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7d16f863edf1..9369ce1d15c5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7020,6 +7020,25 @@ 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*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETHTOOL_PUTS",
+ "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with only two arguments\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*,\s*($FuncArg)/ethtool_puts($1, $7)/;
+ }
+ }
+
+ # use $rawline because $line loses %s via sanitization and thus we can't match against it.
+ if ($rawline =~ /\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*\"\%s\"\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETHTOOL_PUTS",
+ "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with standalone \"%s\" specifier\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*,\s*"\%s"\s*,\s*($FuncArg)/ethtool_puts($1, $7)/;
+ }
+ }
+
+
# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
if ($perl_version_ok &&
defined $stat &&
--
2.42.0.869.gea05f2083d-goog
