On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:57:54PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > mm/backing-dev.c:810:57: warning: format string is not a string literal > (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security] > dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, bdi->dev_name); The callers never pass format strings here. That being said the fix is probably ok anyway, modulo the obvious style issue. > diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c > index 408d5051d05b..5755578d671d 100644 > --- a/mm/backing-dev.c > +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c > @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ int bdi_register_va(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, va_list args) > return 0; > > vsnprintf(bdi->dev_name, sizeof(bdi->dev_name), fmt, args); > - dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, bdi->dev_name); > + dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, "%s", bdi->dev_name); Please don't introduce any over 80 char lines.
