Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the char-misc.current tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Sep 09 2020 - 08:34:50 EST


On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:43:17AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the char-misc.current tree, today's linux-next build
> (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced this warning:
>
> In file included from include/linux/printk.h:7,
> from include/linux/kernel.h:15,
> from lib/dynamic_debug.c:16:
> lib/dynamic_debug.c: In function 'ddebug_parse_query':
> include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: warning: format '%s' expects a matching 'char *' argument [-Wformat=]
> 5 | #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */
> | ^~~~~~
> include/linux/kern_levels.h:14:19: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_SOH'
> 14 | #define KERN_INFO KERN_SOH "6" /* informational */
> | ^~~~~~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:369:9: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_INFO'
> 369 | printk(KERN_INFO pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ^~~~~~~~~
> lib/dynamic_debug.c:116:3: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_info'
> 116 | pr_info(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> | ^~~~~~~
> lib/dynamic_debug.c:119:28: note: in expansion of macro 'vnpr_info'
> 119 | #define vpr_info(fmt, ...) vnpr_info(1, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ^~~~~~~~~
> lib/dynamic_debug.c:388:3: note: in expansion of macro 'vpr_info'
> 388 | vpr_info("module:%s queries:'%s'\n", modname);
> | ^~~~~~~~
>
> Introduced by commit
>
> 42f07816ac0c ("dyndbg: fix problem parsing format="foo bar"")

Odd it doesn't show up in my builds, or in 0-day :(

Jim, can you send a fix for this, or is this due to some other tree's
issues?

thanks,

greg k-h