From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>,
"devel@acpica.org" <devel@acpica.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Fix format string type mistakes
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:04:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5jKc35OzaPCR-f34THEkmE4ZbPP-cW2BVFzTgPYVmT_5dw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0h-xUXNHgr5x4ZYRAvsUZDip65aYCPVPeZ3E9=djcpQnA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
>>
>> This adds the missing __printf attribute which allows compile time
>> format string checking (and will be used by the coming initify gcc
>> plugin). Additionally, this fixes the warnings exposed by the attribute.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
>> [kees: split scsi/acpi, merged attr and fix, new commit messages]
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> This modifies code that we get from an external projiect (ACPICA) and
> the bugs should be fixed in there in the first place.
Who should get CCed?
> Moreover, I'm not sure if adding __printf in acpiosxf.h is a good idea.
Why not? This is going to be needed by the initify plugin to do
correct detection of what's being passed around to functions...
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Nexus Security
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-16 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-16 21:51 Kees Cook
2016-12-16 22:36 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-12-16 23:04 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2016-12-17 2:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-12-19 21:45 ` Moore, Robert
2016-12-19 6:05 ` Zheng, Lv
2016-12-21 7:39 ` Zheng, Lv
2016-12-21 8:06 ` Zheng, Lv
2016-12-21 17:16 ` Moore, Robert
2016-12-22 6:52 ` Zheng, Lv
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