From: Bill Wendling <isanbard@xxxxxxxxx> When compiling with -Wformat, clang emits the following warnings: drivers/char/mem.c:775:16: error: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Werror,-Wformat-security] NULL, devlist[minor].name); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Use a string literal for the format string. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378 Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <isanbard@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/mem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c index 84ca98ed1dad..32d821ba9e4d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ static int __init chr_dev_init(void) continue; device_create(mem_class, NULL, MKDEV(MEM_MAJOR, minor), - NULL, devlist[minor].name); + NULL, "%s", devlist[minor].name); } return tty_init(); -- 2.36.1.255.ge46751e96f-goog