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Message-Id: <20240903-octeontx2-sparse-v1-1-f190309ecb0a@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:26:53 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>, 
 Linu Cherian <lcherian@...vell.com>, Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>, 
 Jerin Jacob <jerinj@...vell.com>, Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@...vell.com>, 
 Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, 
 Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, 
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] octeontx2-af: Pass string literal as format
 argument of alloc_workqueue()

Recently I noticed that both gcc-14 and clang-18 report that passing
a non-string literal as the format argument of alloc_workqueue()
is potentially insecure.

E.g. clang-18 says:

.../rvu.c:2493:32: warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]
 2493 |         mw->mbox_wq = alloc_workqueue(name,
      |                                       ^~~~
.../rvu.c:2493:32: note: treat the string as an argument to avoid this
 2493 |         mw->mbox_wq = alloc_workqueue(name,
      |                                       ^
      |                                       "%s",

It is always the case where the contents of name is safe to pass as the
format argument. That is, in my understanding, it never contains any
format escape sequences.

But, it seems better to be safe than sorry. And, as a bonus, compiler
output becomes less verbose by addressing this issue as suggested by
clang-18.

Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
index ac7ee3f3598c..1a97fb9032fa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
@@ -2479,9 +2479,9 @@ static int rvu_mbox_init(struct rvu *rvu, struct mbox_wq_info *mw,
 		goto free_regions;
 	}
 
-	mw->mbox_wq = alloc_workqueue(name,
+	mw->mbox_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s",
 				      WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
-				      num);
+				      num, name);
 	if (!mw->mbox_wq) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto unmap_regions;

-- 
2.45.2


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