linux-kernel - Re: scripts/basic/fixdep: Complete error handling in print

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Message-ID: <5e73f504-fae2-c1c9-0dea-c2860cc4a683@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Sun, 30 Oct 2016 16:17:22 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Jim Davis <jim.epost@...il.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/basic/fixdep: Complete error handling in print_cmdline()

> But what would you expect printf error checking to tell a user?

I wonder that the error detection and corresponding exception handling
was not corrected for the affected source files of build-time tools so far.
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/EXP12-C.+Do+not+ignore+values+returned+by+functions

Regards,
Markus