linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: fix -Wformat

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Message-ID: <7ca84085-f8e1-6792-7d1c-455815986572@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:46:04 -0800
From:   Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: fix -Wformat


On 12/2/20 2:34 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:04 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 14:00 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, we could go through and remove %h and %hh to solve this, too, right?
>> Yup.
>>
>> I think one of the checkpatch improvement mentees is adding
>> some suggestion and I hope an automated fix mechanism for that.
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5e3265c241602bb54286fbaae9222070daa4768e.camel@perches.com/
> + Tom, who's been looking at leveraging clang-tidy to automate such
> treewide mechanical changes.
> ex. https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789

This looks like a good one to automate.

If you don't mind, I'll give it a try next.

Need a break from semicolons ;)

Tom

>
> See also commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging
> use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]") for a concise summary of
> related context.