The patch titled Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c: fix obfuscated and wrong format string has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rtc-mc13xxx-fix-obfuscated-and-wrong-format-string.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rtc-mc13xxx-fix-obfuscated-and-wrong-format-string.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rtc-mc13xxx-fix-obfuscated-and-wrong-format-string.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c: fix obfuscated and wrong format string According to C99, %2.s means 'print two spaces' (a precision of . without following digits or * means 0). The kernel's printf implementation, however, treats that case as if no precision was given, but relying on that quirk is rather silly. Also, since no - (aka left-justify) flag is given, the field with of 2 would then cause the alarm->enabled case to come out as "o n". Deobfuscate it. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c~rtc-mc13xxx-fix-obfuscated-and-wrong-format-string drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c~rtc-mc13xxx-fix-obfuscated-and-wrong-format-string +++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int mc13xxx_rtc_set_alarm(struct if (unlikely(ret)) goto out; - dev_dbg(dev, "%s: o%2.s %lu\n", __func__, alarm->enabled ? "n" : "ff", + dev_dbg(dev, "%s: %s %lu\n", __func__, alarm->enabled ? "on" : "off", s1970); ret = mc13xxx_rtc_irq_enable_unlocked(dev, alarm->enabled, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-bitmaph-improve-bitmap_lastfirst_word_mask.patch rtc-mc13xxx-fix-obfuscated-and-wrong-format-string.patch lib-lz4-pull-out-constant-tables.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html