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

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Message-ID: <c9d63f7d-7fa4-4fd6-f897-265315d935ab@redhat.com>
Date:   Sun, 13 Dec 2020 15:29:09 -0800
From:   Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.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 12/13/20 3:25 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 11:21 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> See also commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging
>>> use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]") for a concise summary of
>>> related context.
>> I have posted the fixer here
>>
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D93182
>>
>> It catches about 200 problems in 100 files, I'll be posting these soon.
> Thanks, but see below:
>  
>> clang-tidy-fix's big difference over checkpatch is using the __printf(x,y) attribute to find the log functions.
>>
>> I will be doing a follow-on to add the missing __printf or __scanf's and rerunning the fixer.
> scanf should not be tested because the %h use is required there.

Yes.

I mean the clang-tidy check i am planning on writing will find missing __scanf as well as the __printf.

The %h fixer only works on __printf.

Tom

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