Re: [PATCH] tools/latency-collector: fix -Wformat-security compile warns

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Tue May 21 2024 - 11:11:17 EST


On 4/3/24 19:10, Shuah Khan wrote:
Fix the following -Wformat-security compile warnings adding missing
format arguments:

latency-collector.c: In function ‘show_available’:
latency-collector.c:938:17: warning: format not a string literal and
no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
938 | warnx(no_tracer_msg);
| ^~~~~

latency-collector.c:943:17: warning: format not a string literal and
no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
943 | warnx(no_latency_tr_msg);
| ^~~~~

latency-collector.c: In function ‘find_default_tracer’:
latency-collector.c:986:25: warning: format not a string literal and
no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
986 | errx(EXIT_FAILURE, no_tracer_msg);
|
^~~~
latency-collector.c: In function ‘scan_arguments’:
latency-collector.c:1881:33: warning: format not a string literal and
no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
1881 | errx(EXIT_FAILURE, no_tracer_msg);
| ^~~~

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c b/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c
index 0fd9c747d396..cf263fe9deaf 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c
@@ -935,12 +935,12 @@ static void show_available(void)
}
if (!tracers) {
- warnx(no_tracer_msg);
+ warnx("%s", no_tracer_msg);
return;
}
if (!found) {
- warnx(no_latency_tr_msg);
+ warnx("%s", no_latency_tr_msg);
tracefs_list_free(tracers);
return;
}
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ static const char *find_default_tracer(void)
for (i = 0; relevant_tracers[i]; i++) {
valid = tracer_valid(relevant_tracers[i], &notracer);
if (notracer)
- errx(EXIT_FAILURE, no_tracer_msg);
+ errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s", no_tracer_msg);
if (valid)
return relevant_tracers[i];
}
@@ -1878,7 +1878,7 @@ static void scan_arguments(int argc, char *argv[])
}
valid = tracer_valid(current_tracer, &notracer);
if (notracer)
- errx(EXIT_FAILURE, no_tracer_msg);
+ errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s", no_tracer_msg);
if (!valid)
errx(EXIT_FAILURE,
"The tracer %s is not supported by your kernel!\n", current_tracer);

Any thoughts on this patch?

thanks,
-- Shuah