Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Wed 2009-02-04 14:26:45, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Before judging on this patch could you please post what warning it
>  > triggers and one or a few patches to fix some of them.
> 
> The warnings are things like:
> 
>     init/main.c: In function 'start_kernel':
>     init/main.c:557: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> 

Would it be possible to declare linux_banner const or something?

> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 8442094..78fc0d8 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>  	boot_cpu_init();
>  	page_address_init();
>  	printk(KERN_NOTICE);
> -	printk(linux_banner);
> +	printk("%s", linux_banner);

Actually 
	 printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s", linux_banner);

is a better fix that will save some code, too.

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