On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 10:16:26PM +0000, Bill Wendling wrote: > From: Bill Wendling <isanbard@xxxxxxxxx> Why isn't that matching your From: line in the email? > > When compiling with -Wformat, clang emits the following warnings: Is that ever a default build option for the kernel? > > 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); Please explain how this static string can ever be user controlled. thanks, greg k-h