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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>,
	Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 2/5] tools/nolibc/stdio: Add format attribute to enable printf warnings
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:13:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220620231325.GA3845036@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>

From: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>

When we use printf and fprintf functions from the nolibc, we don't
get any warning from the compiler if we have the wrong arguments.
For example, the following calls will compile silently:
```
  printf("%s %s\n", "aaa");
  fprintf(stdout, "%s %s\n", "xxx", 1);
```
(Note the wrong arguments).

Those calls are undefined behavior. The compiler can help us warn
about the above mistakes by adding a `printf` format attribute to
those functions declaration. This patch adds it, and now it yields
these warnings for those mistakes:
```
  warning: format `%s` expects a matching `char *` argument [-Wformat=]
  warning: format `%s` expects argument of type `char *`, but argument 4 has type `int` [-Wformat=]
```

  [ ammarfaizi2: Simplify the attribute placement. ]

Signed-off-by: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
---
 tools/include/nolibc/stdio.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/stdio.h b/tools/include/nolibc/stdio.h
index 15dedf8d0902d..a3cebc4bc3ac4 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/stdio.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/stdio.h
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ int vfprintf(FILE *stream, const char *fmt, va_list args)
 	return written;
 }
 
-static __attribute__((unused))
+static __attribute__((unused, format(printf, 2, 3)))
 int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	va_list args;
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *fmt, ...)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static __attribute__((unused))
+static __attribute__((unused, format(printf, 1, 2)))
 int printf(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	va_list args;
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-20 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-20 23:13 [PATCH rcu 0/5] nolibc updates for v5.20 Paul E. McKenney
2022-06-20 23:13 ` [PATCH rcu 1/5] tools/nolibc/stdlib: Support overflow checking for older compiler versions Paul E. McKenney
2022-06-20 23:13 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2022-06-20 23:13 ` [PATCH rcu 3/5] tools/nolibc: fix the makefile to also work as "make -C tools ..." Paul E. McKenney
2022-06-20 23:13 ` [PATCH rcu 4/5] tools/nolibc: make the default target build the headers Paul E. McKenney
2022-06-20 23:13 ` [PATCH rcu 5/5] tools/nolibc: add a help target to list supported targets Paul E. McKenney

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