Re: [PATCH v2] modpost: fix asprintf warnings

["Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On compilers with security warnings enabled by default, we get:
>
> scripts/mod/modpost.c: In function 'get_markers':
> scripts/mod/modpost.c:1562: warning: ignoring return value of 'asprintf',
>                                     declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> scripts/mod/modpost.c: In function 'add_marker':
> scripts/mod/modpost.c:1982: warning: ignoring return value of 'asprintf',
>                                     declared with attribute warn_unused_result
>
> So check the return value and abort on errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>


Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

> ---
> v2
>        - add missing newline pointed out by Américo Wang
>
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 801a16a..6608ebd 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -1559,7 +1559,8 @@ static void get_markers(struct elf_info *info, struct module *mod)
>                        const char *name = strings + sym->st_value;
>                        const char *fmt = strchr(name, '\0') + 1;
>                        char *line = NULL;
> -                       asprintf(&line, "%s\t%s\t%s\n", name, mod->name, fmt);
> +                       if (asprintf(&line, "%s\t%s\t%s\n", name, mod->name, fmt) == -1)
> +                               fatal("asprintf() with %s failed\n", name);
>                        NOFAIL(line);
>                        mod->markers[n++] = line;
>                }
> @@ -1979,7 +1980,8 @@ static void write_dump(const char *fname)
>  static void add_marker(struct module *mod, const char *name, const char *fmt)
>  {
>        char *line = NULL;
> -       asprintf(&line, "%s\t%s\t%s\n", name, mod->name, fmt);
> +       if (asprintf(&line, "%s\t%s\t%s\n", name, mod->name, fmt) == -1)
> +               fatal("asprintf() with %s failed\n", name);
>        NOFAIL(line);
>
>        mod->markers = NOFAIL(realloc(mod->markers, ((mod->nmarkers + 1) *