This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests: timers: Fix posix_timers ksft_print_msg() warning to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selftests-timers-fix-posix_timers-ksft_print_msg-war.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6e7660b2b4f23620ad6d74cdd8b7d6bae733eb87 Author: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 10 16:26:28 2024 -0700 selftests: timers: Fix posix_timers ksft_print_msg() warning [ Upstream commit e4a6bceac98eba3c00e874892736b34ea5fdaca3 ] After commit 6d029c25b71f ("selftests/timers/posix_timers: Reimplement check_timer_distribution()") the following warning occurs when building with an older gcc: posix_timers.c:250:2: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security] 250 | ksft_print_msg(errmsg); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fix this up by changing it to ksft_print_msg("%s", errmsg) Fixes: 6d029c25b71f ("selftests/timers/posix_timers: Reimplement check_timer_distribution()") Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240410232637.4135564-1-jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c index 14355d8472110..c001dd79179d5 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static int check_timer_distribution(void) ksft_test_result_skip("check signal distribution (old kernel)\n"); return 0; err: - ksft_print_msg(errmsg); + ksft_print_msg("%s", errmsg); return -1; }