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* [PATCH] tools/thermal/thermal-engine: Fix format string bug in thermal-engine
@ 2025-11-24 10:43 Malaya Kumar Rout
  2025-11-25  9:00 ` Daniel Lezcano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Malaya Kumar Rout @ 2025-11-24 10:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: mrout, malayarout91, Rafael J. Wysocki, Daniel Lezcano,
	Zhang Rui, Lukasz Luba, linux-pm

The error message in the daemon() failure path uses %p format specifier
without providing a corresponding pointer argument, resulting in undefined
behavior and printing garbage values.

Replace %p with %m to properly print the errno error message, which is
the intended behavior when daemon() fails.

This fix ensures proper error reporting when daemonization fails.

Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <mrout@redhat.com>
---
 tools/thermal/thermal-engine/thermal-engine.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/thermal/thermal-engine/thermal-engine.c b/tools/thermal/thermal-engine/thermal-engine.c
index 0764dc754771..66b0ba1fcd23 100644
--- a/tools/thermal/thermal-engine/thermal-engine.c
+++ b/tools/thermal/thermal-engine/thermal-engine.c
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	}
 
 	if (options.daemonize && daemon(0, 0)) {
-		ERROR("Failed to daemonize: %p\n");
+		ERROR("Failed to daemonize: %m\n");
 		return THERMAL_ENGINE_DAEMON_ERROR;
 	}
 
-- 
2.51.0


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* Re: [PATCH] tools/thermal/thermal-engine: Fix format string bug in thermal-engine
  2025-11-24 10:43 [PATCH] tools/thermal/thermal-engine: Fix format string bug in thermal-engine Malaya Kumar Rout
@ 2025-11-25  9:00 ` Daniel Lezcano
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Lezcano @ 2025-11-25  9:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Malaya Kumar Rout, linux-kernel
  Cc: malayarout91, Rafael J. Wysocki, Zhang Rui, Lukasz Luba, linux-pm

On 11/24/25 11:43, Malaya Kumar Rout wrote:
> The error message in the daemon() failure path uses %p format specifier
> without providing a corresponding pointer argument, resulting in undefined
> behavior and printing garbage values.
> 
> Replace %p with %m to properly print the errno error message, which is
> the intended behavior when daemon() fails.
> 
> This fix ensures proper error reporting when daemonization fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <mrout@redhat.com>
> ---

Applied, thanks


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