On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:31 AM, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:15:04 +0200 > > Return values were not checked from five calls of the function "printf". > > This issue was detected also by using the Coccinelle software. > > > * Add a bit of exception handling there. > > * Optimise this function implementation a bit. The most interesting thing about this patch was trying to figure out how to actually get bin2c to run at all. Making a defconfig kernel didn't run it. Making a kernel with the latest Ubuntu 16.10 config file didn't run it. Setting CONFIG_IKCONFIG runs it (once), for the folks who want to use scripts/extract-ikconfig. After that, if you dig about in the makefiles, it looks like you have to turn on the Tomoyo LSM -- which doesn't seem to be a common occurrence -- or else set CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE to generate the 'purgatory' thing it uses. Again, not the most frequent of events, as far as I can tell. Given how uncommon running bin2c seems to be, "optimizing" it may not be a useful project. -- Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
