On 12/7/23 00:16, justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx 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 <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 25fdb7fda112..6924731110d8 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -7011,6 +7011,25 @@ 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)/;
(not related to the patch) without deeper digging it was completely unclear why it is $7 for the "second" capture group, turns out that FuncArg contains parens and other vars with parens :~
+ } + } + + # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t if ($perl_version_ok && defined $stat &&
