The patch titled Subject: slub: indicate slab_fix() uses printf formats has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is slub-indicate-slab_fix-uses-printf-formats.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/slub-indicate-slab_fix-uses-printf-formats.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/slub-indicate-slab_fix-uses-printf-formats.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: slub: indicate slab_fix() uses printf formats Ideally, slab_fix() would be marked with __printf and the format here would not use \n as that's emitted by the slab_fix(). Make these changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601182202.3011020-4-swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slub.c~slub-indicate-slab_fix-uses-printf-formats +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ static void slab_bug(struct kmem_cache * va_end(args); } +__printf(2, 3) static void slab_fix(struct kmem_cache *s, char *fmt, ...) { struct va_format vaf; @@ -805,7 +806,7 @@ static void init_object(struct kmem_cach static void restore_bytes(struct kmem_cache *s, char *message, u8 data, void *from, void *to) { - slab_fix(s, "Restoring %s 0x%p-0x%p=0x%x\n", message, from, to - 1, data); + slab_fix(s, "Restoring %s 0x%p-0x%p=0x%x", message, from, to - 1, data); memset(from, data, to - from); } @@ -1058,13 +1059,13 @@ static int on_freelist(struct kmem_cache slab_err(s, page, "Wrong number of objects. Found %d but should be %d", page->objects, max_objects); page->objects = max_objects; - slab_fix(s, "Number of objects adjusted."); + slab_fix(s, "Number of objects adjusted"); } if (page->inuse != page->objects - nr) { slab_err(s, page, "Wrong object count. Counter is %d but counted were %d", page->inuse, page->objects - nr); page->inuse = page->objects - nr; - slab_fix(s, "Object count adjusted."); + slab_fix(s, "Object count adjusted"); } return search == NULL; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are slub-indicate-slab_fix-uses-printf-formats.patch