linux-kernel - v4.4-rc8: compile warning in scripts/recordmcount.c

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:22:58 -0800
From:	Petri Gynther <pgynther@...gle.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: v4.4-rc8: compile warning in scripts/recordmcount.c

vmlinux: scripts/recordmcount.c: In function ‘main’:
vmlinux: scripts/recordmcount.c:589:4: warning: format not a string
literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
vmlinux:     sprintf("%s: failed\n", file);

Introduced by commit:
commit a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e
Author: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 15 16:06:10 2015 -0500

    ftrace/scripts: Have recordmcount copy the object file


Should that sprintf() be converted to fprintf(stderr, ...) instead?
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