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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:14:51 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Floris Kraak <randakar@...il.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trivial Patch Monkey <trivial@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:28:47PM +0100, Floris Kraak wrote:
> Some distributions have enabled the gcc flag -Wformat-security by default.*
> This results in a number of warnings about format arguments to
> functions, sometimes in cases where fixing the warning is not likely
> to actually fix a bug.
> Instead of hand patching a dozens of places (possibly more) that
> produce warnings that get ignored anyway we just turn off the flag in
> the Makefile.
> 
> Note: Regardless of any discussion surrounding the value of this
> particular type of warning, having this show up in a few distributions
> but not in the
> vast majority of them means that this warning won't be seen by most of
> the developers who introduce the new warnings in the first place. If
> the
> kernel decides it cares about format arguments it should do so
> globally regardless of distribution. In which case I'd gladly whip up
> a patch to do
> the reverse thing and turn this thing on by default. However, such a
> patch would have to produce a follow up patch(set) which fixes each
> individual
> warning.

Before judging on this patch could you please post what warning it
triggers and one or a few patches to fix some of them.

	Sam
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