linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: core: Safe warning about bad dev info string

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:27:08 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>, oe-kbuild-all@...ts.linux.dev,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: core: Safe warning about bad dev info string

On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:24:19 +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Both "model" and "strflags" are passed to "%s" even when one or both
> are NULL.
> 
> It is safe because vsprintf() would detect the NULL pointer and print
> "(null)". But it is a kernel-specific feature and compiler warns
> about it:
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.9/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: core: Safe warning about bad dev info string
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/796cae1a79b1

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering