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Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:11:35 +0200
From:   Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
To:     Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] selftests: mm: uufd-unit-tests: remove a format
 warning in printf

Apologies Muhammad then, didn't follow that branch.

Regards,
Mirsad

On 6/11/23 14:30, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> The fix has already been picked up by Andew in mm unstable:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230607023727.0E011C433D2@smtp.kernel.org
> 
> On 6/11/23 4:50 AM, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>> GCC 11.3.0 issued warnings about macros and types of arguments [edited]:
>>
>> gcc -Wall -I ../tools/testing/selftests/../../.. \
>> 	-I ../tools/testing/selftests/../../../tools/include/uapi \
>> 	-isystem ../usr/include -no-pie uffd-unit-tests.c vm_util.c \
>> 	uffd-common.c -lrt -lpthread -o \
>> 	../tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests
>> uffd-unit-tests.c: In function ‘main’:
>> uffd-unit-tests.c:1198:41: warning: format not a string literal and no \
>> 	format arguments [-Wformat-security]
>>   1198 |                         uffd_test_start(test_name);
>>        |                                         ^~~~~~~~~
>> uffd-unit-tests.c:100:24: note: in definition of macro ‘uffd_test_start’
>>    100 |                 printf(__VA_ARGS__);            \
>>        |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~
>> uffd-unit-tests.c:1205:33: warning: format not a string literal and no \
>> 	format arguments [-Wformat-security]
>>   1205 |                                 uffd_test_skip(errmsg);
>>        |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> The macros are defined as:
>>
>>   #define  uffd_test_start(...)  do {             \
>>                  printf("Testing ");             \
>>                  printf(__VA_ARGS__);            \
>>                  printf("... ");                 \
>>                  fflush(stdout);                 \
>>          } while (0)
>>
>>   #define  uffd_test_skip(...)  do {              \
>>                  printf("skipped [reason: ");    \
>>                  printf(__VA_ARGS__);            \
>>                  printf("]\n");                  \
>>                  ksft_inc_xskip_cnt();           \
>>          } while (0)
>>
>> Minor workaround, adding "%s" first argument to macro expansion calls seems
>> to be the easiest way to eliminate the warnings.
>>
>> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
>> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
>> Cc: linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
>> Fixes: 43759d44dc34 ("selftests/mm: add uffdio register ioctls test")
>> Fixes: 16a45b57cbf2 ("selftests/mm: add framework for uffd-unit-test")
>> Signed-off-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
>> ---
>>   tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c
>> index 269c86768a02..d356dd271c84 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c
>> @@ -1195,14 +1195,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>>   			snprintf(test_name, sizeof(test_name),
>>   				 "%s on %s", test->name, mem_type->name);
>>   
>> -			uffd_test_start(test_name);
>> +			uffd_test_start("%s", test_name);
>>   			if (!uffd_feature_supported(test)) {
>>   				uffd_test_skip("feature missing");
>>   				continue;
>>   			}
>>   			if (uffd_setup_environment(&args, test, mem_type,
>>   						   &errmsg)) {
>> -				uffd_test_skip(errmsg);
>> +				uffd_test_skip("%s", errmsg);
>>   				continue;
>>   			}
>>   			test->uffd_fn(&args);
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