From: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>,
John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@kernel.org>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: work around -Wformat-security warning
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:44:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b36e312-222b-4052-8a8c-0583c908ea19@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260916114533.237863-1-arnd@kernel.org>
On 9/16/26 5:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann<arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Passing a string variable into dev_set_name() causes a warning
> when building with -Wformat-security enabled:
>
> drivers/nvme/host/core.c: In function 'nvme_cdev_add':
> drivers/nvme/host/core.c:3911:9: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
> 3911 | ret = dev_set_name(cdev_device, name);
>
> Remove the temporary strings and let dev_set_name() do the
> same thing internally.
>
> Fixes: 26acdaa357cd ("nvme: fix crash and memory leak during invalid cdev teardown")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann<arnd@arndb.de>
The changes look good. However, I applied the patch and built
drivers/nvme/ with -Wformat-security, and I still see a couple of
additional warnings:
$ make M=drivers/nvme/ KCFLAGS="-Wformat-security"
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nilay/Development/linux-x86/drivers/nvme'
[...]
host/sysfs.c: In function ‘cntrltype_show’:
host/sysfs.c:682:9: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
682 | return sysfs_emit(buf, type[ctrl->cntrltype]);
| ^~~~~~
host/sysfs.c: In function ‘dctype_show’:
host/sysfs.c:699:9: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
699 | return sysfs_emit(buf, type[ctrl->dctype]);
| ^~~~~~
I think that if we're fixing -Wformat-security warnings in the NVMe
driver, it would be useful to address above warnings as part of this
patch as well.
Thanks,
--Nilay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-16 11:44 Arnd Bergmann
2026-09-17 3:40 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-09-17 4:14 ` Nilay Shroff [this message]
2026-09-17 5:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-09-17 8:01 ` John Garry
2026-09-17 8:18 ` Nilay Shroff
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