Re: [PATCH] inifiniband: ucaps: avoid format-security warning

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 04:57:15PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Passing a non-constant format string to dev_set_name causes a warning:
> 
> drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c:173:33: error: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Werror,-Wformat-security]
>   173 |         ret = dev_set_name(&ucap->dev, ucap_names[type]);
>       |                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c:173:33: note: treat the string as an argument to avoid this
>   173 |         ret = dev_set_name(&ucap->dev, ucap_names[type]);
>       |                                        ^
>       |                                        "%s",
> 
> Turn the name into thet %s argument as suggested by gcc.
> 
> Fixes: 61e51682816d ("RDMA/uverbs: Introduce UCAP (User CAPabilities) API")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Why don't you change ucap_names[] declaration instead?

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c
index 6853c6d078f9..90ac41bc0f07 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ struct ib_ucap {
        struct kref ref;
 };

-static const char *ucap_names[RDMA_UCAP_MAX] = {
+static const char *const ucap_names[RDMA_UCAP_MAX] = {
        [RDMA_UCAP_MLX5_CTRL_LOCAL] = "mlx5_perm_ctrl_local",
        [RDMA_UCAP_MLX5_CTRL_OTHER_VHCA] = "mlx5_perm_ctrl_other_vhca"
 };
(END)

Thanks

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c
> index 6853c6d078f9..de5cb8bf0a61 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucaps.c
> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ int ib_create_ucap(enum rdma_user_cap type)
>  	ucap->dev.class = &ucaps_class;
>  	ucap->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(ucaps_base_dev), type);
>  	ucap->dev.release = ucap_dev_release;
> -	ret = dev_set_name(&ucap->dev, ucap_names[type]);
> +	ret = dev_set_name(&ucap->dev, "%s", ucap_names[type]);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto err_device;
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.5
>